Newbie - XML displays as File, not With Link.

  • Thread starter Larry Lindstrom
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Larry Lindstrom

Hi Experts:

I'm working my way through the w3schools XML tutorial, using
Mozilla 1.3 on my development and my web server PCs which run
Solaris 8. Both machines are running Apache 2.0.47.

The w3schools is very Microsoft Internet Explorer oriented.
I don't know Mozilla's diagnostic tools to help me troubleshoot
XML.

W3Schools has an example XML with an XSL file that Mozilla
displays fine when it resides on my web server PC. But when I
bring it and it's XSL over to my development PC, under my
public_html directories, and link to it in my index.html, only
a grey area is displayed. There is no response to Mozilla's
right mouse button, so I can't display the XML source

The page fails to display when Mozilla is asked to follow
this link to the XML file:

<a
href="http://tiamat/~webuser/learn/xml/www.w3schools.com/xsl_tutorial/xsl_tra
nsform/cdcatalog.xml"> XSL transform</a>

or if I type this address into Mozilla's location field:

http://tiamat/~webuser/learn/xml/www.w3schools.com/xsl_tutorial/xsl_transform/cdcatalog.xml

However, the XML displays fine if I want Mozilla to open it
using the file menu.

file:///export/home/user/webuser/public_html/learn/xml/www.w3schools.com/xsl_tutorial/xsl_transform/cdcatalog.xml

In order to see if there is a permission problem, I su to
"nobody", Apache's "User", and I can cd to the directory that
has the XML and I can edit the file. So I don't think it's
a permission error.

No error shows up in Apache's error_log.

Here is the xml and xsl:

cdcatalog.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>

<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
</catalog>

cdcatalog.xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">

<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">

<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>

</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I've been chasing this all night, I'm just learning to use
XML, so this is probably something stupid.

Thanks
Larry
 
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Martin Honnen

Larry said:
Hi Experts:

I'm working my way through the w3schools XML tutorial, using
Mozilla 1.3 on my development and my web server PCs which run
Solaris 8. Both machines are running Apache 2.0.47.

The w3schools is very Microsoft Internet Explorer oriented.
I don't know Mozilla's diagnostic tools to help me troubleshoot
XML.

W3Schools has an example XML with an XSL file that Mozilla
displays fine when it resides on my web server PC. But when I
bring it and it's XSL over to my development PC, under my
public_html directories, and link to it in my index.html, only
a grey area is displayed. There is no response to Mozilla's
right mouse button, so I can't display the XML source

The page fails to display when Mozilla is asked to follow
this link to the XML file:

<a
href="http://tiamat/~webuser/learn/xml/www.w3schools.com/xsl_tutorial/xsl_tra
nsform/cdcatalog.xml"> XSL transform</a>

or if I type this address into Mozilla's location field:

http://tiamat/~webuser/learn/xml/www.w3schools.com/xsl_tutorial/xsl_transform/cdcatalog.xml

However, the XML displays fine if I want Mozilla to open it
using the file menu.

file:///export/home/user/webuser/public_html/learn/xml/www.w3schools.com/xsl_tutorial/xsl_transform/cdcatalog.xml

In order to see if there is a permission problem, I su to
"nobody", Apache's "User", and I can cd to the directory that
has the XML and I can edit the file. So I don't think it's
a permission error.

No error shows up in Apache's error_log.

Here is the xml and xsl:

cdcatalog.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>

<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
</catalog>

cdcatalog.xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">

<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">

<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>

</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I've been chasing this all night, I'm just learning to use
XML, so this is probably something stupid.

Make sure Apache is set up to send .xsl files with Content-Type text/xml
 
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Larry Lindstrom

Martin said:
Larry Lindstrom wrote:

Make sure Apache is set up to send .xsl files with Content-Type text/xml


Thanks Martin:

That did it.

It's odd. I built the same Apache/ModSSL 2.0.47 on both
systems, I tried to make each Apache install the same for
development machine and webserver. But the mime.types file
on my web server is 471 lines long, and the mime.types file
on my development system, which wasn't handling the XSL, is
only 112 lines long.

I appreciate your response.

Thanks
Larry
 

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