I was making a website for a book report, and decided to make an XML application where it lists the characters from the book, and when you click on their names, their information pops up in a table above. It works fine, but only in Internet Explorer.

I have already finished the book report and cannot change it, but was wondering why it doesn't work. The site is here.

~Alway

Post the XML and XSLT source code so we can see what's wrong.

The XML File

I didn't use XSLT, I used XML data islands and put the data into tables.

~Alway

LOL XML DATA ISLAND

That is your problem. You see, XML data islands are Microsoft products, and most browsers, other than Internet Explorer, do not support XML data islands. If you want to use somthing similar to XML data islands, Mozilla has made another "data binder" called XBL.

Hmm... I would do that, if the site actually mattered. I already was marked on the book report. If it was a site like Ocyras, though, I would have fixed it immediately. Thanks for your help.

~Alway

doesn't matter? all sites matter!!

Websites for school projects that have been completely for weeks, in my mind, do not matter.

~Alway

like webng.com/mattfreeman

Yes, exactly.

~Alway

wot iz xeml

nd wot iz xeslt

XML - (EXtensible Markup Language) An open standard for describing data from the W3C. It is used for defining data elements on a Web page and business-to-business documents. XML uses a similar tag structure as HTML; however, whereas HTML defines how elements are displayed, XML defines what those elements contain. While HTML uses predefined tags, XML allows tags to be defined by the developer of the page. Thus, virtually any data items, such as "product," "sales rep" and "amount due," can be identified, allowing Web pages to function like database records. By providing a common method for identifying data, XML supports business-to-business transactions and has become "the" format for electronic data interchange and Web services.

XML Is Only a Format:
Since its introduction in 1998, XML has been hyped as the panacea to e-commerce, but it was only the first step. The human-readable XML tags provide a simple data format, but the intelligent defining of these tags to serve business needs properly and everyone's adherence to using the same tags determines the real value of XML. Countless vocabularies have been developed for vertical applications; so many in fact, that a universal language was developed to provide a standard for interoperability between them.

XML Documents Can Define Themselves:
An XML document is self defining if an XML schema is included in it. Schemas, such as W3C XML Schema, are written in XML and identify the tags and their relationships to each other in the document.

More Rigid than HTML:
Unlike HTML, which uses a rather loose coding style and which is tolerant of coding errors, XML pages have to be "well formed," which means they must comply with rigid rules. - thefreedictionary.com

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XSL - (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) A standard from the W3C for describing a style sheet for XML documents. It is the XML counterpart to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in HTML and is compatible with CSS2. XSL is made up of three components: (1) XSL Transformations (XSLT) is the processing language for XSL. It is used to convert XML documents into HTML or other document types and may be used independently of XSL. (2) XML Path Language (Xpath) is used to identify and select tagged elements within an XML document, and (3) XSL Formatting Objects (XSL FO) provides the format vocabulary. - thefreedictionary.com

Does that answer your questions?

~Alway

XML - (EXtensible Markup Language) An closed standard for describing data from the W4C. It is not used for defining data elements on a Web page and business-to-business documents. XML uses a completely different tag structure as HTML; however, whereas HTML defines how elements are displayed, XML defines how elements are displayed. While HTML uses predefined tags, XML uses predefined tags. Thus, virtually any data items, such as "product," "sales rep" and "amount due," can be identified, forbidding Web pages to function like database records. By providing a uncommon method for identifying data, XML does not support business-to-business transactions and has become "the worst" format for electronic data interchange and Web services.

XML Is Only a Format:
Since its introduction in 1998, XML has been not hyped as the panacea to e-commerce, but it was only the first step. The human-unreadable XML tags provide a very complicated data format, but the unintelligent defining of these tags to serve business needs properly and everyone's adherence to using the same tags determines the real worthlessness of XML. Almost no vocabularies have been developed for vertical applications; so few in fact, that a universal language was developed to provide a standard for interoperability between them.

XML Documents Can Define Themselves:
An XML document is self defining if an XML schema is included in it. Schemas, such as W3C XML Schema, are written in XML and identify the tags and their relationships to each other in the document.

More Rigid than HTML:
Unlike HTML, which uses a rather loose coding style and which is tolerant of coding errors, XML pages have to be "well formed," which means they must comply with rigid rules. - thefreedictionary.com

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XSL - (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) A standard from the W3C for describing a style sheet for XML documents. It is the XML counterpart to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in HTML and is compatible with CSS2. XSL is made up of three components: (1) XSL Transformations (XSLT) is the processing language for XSL. It is used to convert XML documents into HTML or other document types and may be used independently of XSL. (2) XML Path Language (Xpath) is used to identify and select tagged elements within an XML document, and (3) XSL Formatting Objects (XSL FO) provides the format vocabulary. - thefreedictionary.com

Does that answer your questions?

~Alway

O noes is \"ie\" onlyy baad!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Yes, IE-only is very bad, because Internet Explorer is a horrible browser. I've always wondered why so many people still use that terrible... thing, when there are plenty of better browsers out there. Especially Firefox and Opera.

Also, this topic should have pruned long ago...

~Alway

WoW y DuZnT UR PrOOn THiiNGzy WURK?

Haha. Funny.

Actually, they work fine.

Just kidding. IE is a terrible browser because it interprets the HTML code differently than the other browsers. Web designers need to use dozens of workarounds that often make invalid HTML code and in some cases, they practically have to rewrite the entire page.

That's why IE sucks.

~Alway

EDIT: Also, why do you keep bumping up these ancient topics and post things having nothing to do with the original post? You know, you can make some new topics and not be banned, as long as you use PROPER GRAMMAR AND SPELLING.

Closed. We don't need ancient topics kept open so kewldood can spam them.

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Yet, you're bumping it by saying that...

~Alway