XSLT transformations work in IE and Stylus Studio but not in Firefox or Opera
We were developing some stylesheets to convert xml to html in Stylus Studio and had the problem that IE would render them fine, but when we used Firefox/Opera we only saw plain text.
If you are also experiencing this problem you are probably missing the xsl:output element:
<xsl:output method="html"/>
When the XSL processor sees this instruction it will generate a meta data element similar to the following in the resulting html header, which sets the content type to text/html. This lets the browser know to treat the resulting text as html:
The problem is - some XSL processors (e.g. Saxon ) appear to generate this meta data item even if the xsl:output is absent - by detecting the html tags in the document. It appears that the processor built into IE has this feature, so IE correctly interprets the html, even without the xsl:output. Firefox, however, does not.
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