XML with CSS: IE vs Firefox

Jay Frank · October 26th, 2007, 11:27 AM

I am having difficulty styling a test page using an external stylesheet. The XML text begins ...

Quote:

quote:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?xml-stylesheet href="Hamlet_4_1_w6_jmf.css" type="text/css"?>



<!DOCTYPE jmfns:Play SYSTEM "Hamlet_4_1_w6_jmf.dtd" [

    <!ENTITY KC "KING CLAUDIUS">
    <!ENTITY QG "QUEEN GERTRUDE">
    <!ENTITY RC "ROSENCRANTZ">
    <!ENTITY GS "GUILDENSTERN">
    <!ENTITY RC-GS "ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN">
]>

<jmfns:Play xmlns:jmfns="IWA0274301.Beginning_XML.jmfns" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

while the first few lines of the external stylesheet read ...

Quote:

quote:
jmfns\:Play {
     margin: auto;
    font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", "Verdana", sans-serif;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #98fb98;
    border-style:double;
    border-width: medium;
    width: 440px;
    padding: 12px;
}

jmfns\:Title {
    display: block;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding-top: 4px;
    padding-bottom: 12px;
    text-align: center;
}

Note that the colons [':'] in the external stylesheet are escaped per Microsoft.

The page displays as expected using IE, but none of the styling is displayed when using Firefox. Can someone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Jay Frank · October 29th, 2007, 07:21 AM

Again, could someone please suggest how I might use CSS & DTD together such that it will properly display (style) in both IE and Firefox/Netscape? Thank you.

mhkay · October 29th, 2007, 07:28 AM

There's not much point repeating the question. If no one has answered, it means that no-one who is listening knows the answer.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

joefawcett · October 29th, 2007, 07:34 AM

I think that formatting XML directly in a browser via CSS is deceidely difficult to debug as you can't see what's actually happening. I think it's easier to use an XSL transform to generate traditional HTML/XHTML.

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

samjudson · October 29th, 2007, 07:37 AM

Firefox appears to match the local-name, without the prefix.

Have you tried just defining the CSS as

Play { }

or double defining them as

jmfns\:Play, Play {
}

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Jay Frank · October 29th, 2007, 08:12 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by samjudson
Firefox appears to match the local-name, without the prefix.

Have you tried just defining the CSS as

Play { }

or double defining them as

jmfns\:Play, Play {
}

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Perfect. Thank you.