If you're just focusing on display things such as tooltips, then don't 
forget that CSS alone (rather than Xslt) to render an Xml file can be very 
powerful and is supported on a number of browsers.

steven :: http://stevenR2.com


"Michael D." <MichaelD@d...> wrote in message 
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> Martin,
>  Thanks for the suggestions.  We are developing in a limited environment 
> (a
> corporate training department), and don't have access to anything other 
> than
> simple html files (and anything interesting I can do inside of such), as 
> well
> as various Macromedia products.  Can't do anything server side, our 
> courses
> can't even directly interface with our Learning Management System (LMS) 
> yet...
>
> However, one advantage of the environment is that all the desktops of
> learners are standardized on MSIE 6, so I can be pretty confident that
> anything IE-specific that I develop will work.  It is a 12,000+ employee
> company, so I don't see any overnight change in browser standard 
> ocurring...
> :-)
>
>
>
> "Martin Honnen" wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Michael D. wrote:
>>
>> >   I am just getting started with XML, trying to create a glossary.xml 
>> > file
>> > to use in various internal e-learning courses.  I've figured out how to
>> > create a XSL transformation in my glossary.xml file, but I haven't 
>> > figured
>> > out how to actually include my glossary.xml in a real live .html page, 
>> > and
>> > have the transformations take effect.
>>
>> If you want to use XML and XSLT then consider doing that on the server
>> (e.g. with ASP or with ASP.NET) where you can be sure you have an XSLT
>> processor. Then you can simply build HTML documents dynamically and
>> include anything you create as the result of an XSLT transformation.
>>
>> Doing XSLT client-side in the browser is pretty restricted, only IE 6
>> with MSXML 3 comes with an XSLT 1.0 processor, then Mozilla/Firefox and
>> recent Safari versions. But scripting XSLT transformations is different
>> in IE 6 and Mozilla and as far as I know not possible in Safari.
>>
>> In terms of HTML all you can do is e.g.
>>    <iframe src="glossary.xml"></iframe>
>> where glossary.xml then references your stylesheet e.g.
>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="glossaryStylesheet.xml"?>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>>