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IE XML Data Island Functionality in NS6+ Browsers

What does Direct Approach Mean?

Direct approach means to open an XML file directly in the browser, such as typing the URL of the file in the browser's address/location bar.

NS and IE generation 6+ browsers have built-in style sheet processors that properly display files with the *.XML file extension.

The best part which is to notice in the approach is that you can include an XSL file in the XML document and the browser's XSL/XSLT processor will render the XML document according to the imported XSL/XSLT file.

This is a powerful tool in the hands of web developers, allowing them to use XML for data display and data presentation.

To show you how it works, we need:

• An XML file.
• And an XSL file to set the page layout.

  <xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <employees>
    	<employee>
    		<name>Joe</name>
    		<job>Programmer</job>
    		<department>Engineering</department>
    		<cubicle>5E</cubicle>
    	</employee>
      
        <employee>
    		<name>Jane</name>
    		<job>Desigmer</job>
    		<department>Architecture</department>
    		<cubicle>12A</cubicle>
    	</employee>
    </employees>
    

    <?xml-stylesheet href="DOMXMLParsing.xml" type="text/xsl" encoding="ISO=8859-1"?>
    

1. XSLT - This language is used to transform an XML document into almost any other document.
2. XPath - This is an expression language used by XSLT to refer to or access any part of an XML document.
3. XSLT - This is an XML vocabulary used to specify semantics for formatting (I used it few years back to convert XML documents to PDF file).

In this exercise, we'll use XSLT/XPath to transform XML data in to HTML which can be rendered on any web browser.

Note: There are XSLT processors out there that can spit HTML when fed XML and XSLT files - Xalan is one of them).

To learn more about XSL/XSLT, please visit the W3C XSLT pages, (it's the best resource you can find for free...:-).

Further discussion on XSL is beyond the scope of this article, so we forward directly to actual example. Here, I've created an XSL file to display data in a table. The XML file is named employee_xsl_db.xml and the XSL file included in this XML file is named employee_db.xsl. Click here to view.

Now, we're ready to write a detailed cross browser (IE5+ and NS6+) solution that works perfectly.

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