XSLT differences

Июль 3rd, 2006

Mozilla supports XSL Transformations (XSLT) 1.0. It also allows JavaScript to perform XSLT transformations and allows running XPATH on a document.

Mozilla requires that you send the XML and XSLT file holding the stylesheet with an XML mimetype (text/xml or application/xml). This is the most common reason why XSLT won’t run in Mozilla but will in Internet Explorer. Mozilla is strict in that way.

Internet Explorer 5.0 and 5.5 supported XSLT’s working draft, which is substantially different than the final 1.0 recommendation. The easiest way to distinguish what version an XSLT file was written against is to look at the namespace. The namespace for the 1.0 recommendation is http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform, while the working draft’s namespace is http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl. Internet Explorer 6 supports the working draft for backwards compatibility, but Mozilla does not support the working draft, only the final recommendation.

If XSLT requires you to distinguish the browser, you can query the “xsl:vendor” system property. Mozilla’s XSLT engine will report itself as “Transformiix” and Internet Explorer will return “Microsoft.”

<xsl:if test=\"system-property('xsl:vendor') = 'Transformiix'\">
  <!-- Mozilla specific markup -->
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test=\"system-property('xsl:vendor') = 'Microsoft'\">
  <!-- Internet Explorer specific markup -->
</xsl:if>

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