Client side XSLT not working in FireFox

ole_v2 · November 13th, 2006, 04:14 PM

Subject pretty much says it all. I came across http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...in_Mozilla_FAQ FAQ which states that I should be using .xml and .xls extensions. OK. And serving as text/xml. OK

So I checked it out. Unsurprisingly there was something up. My .xml and .xsl files were being served without a Content-Type at all.

So added this line (using Apache 2):

Code:

AddType text/xml xml xsl xslt

to my apache2.conf but its made no difference. Indeed to get a Content-Type header to be send I have to use PHP!

Code:

header('Content-Type: text/xml');

but then of course i'm not using the correct .xml and .xsl extensions.

Why isn't Content-Type being sent at all in the first place?
Why is my AddType declaration being ignored
Why is ForceType (another thing I tried with an .htaccess) also making absolutely no difference?!

Also this isn't anything to do with content negotiation because my browser is clearly accepting text/xml.

ole_v2 · November 13th, 2006, 06:26 PM

Solved.

FireFox won't process

Code:

<xsl:output method="xml"

properly. Instead you must use

Code:

<xsl:output method="html"

.

Oh btw my server was sending text/xml header all along.