Hi Pieter,



I could reproduce your (interesting) problem. 
IE is loading the xsl as xml because of its extension. 
 



Well not really as xml, because all the formatting is correct, the links 
show as links

and even the CSS styles are OK, it's apparently only the anchors that 
don't work.



Renaming the file's extension to .html solves the problem. 
 



Yes but strangely, renaming to .xml also solves it. It seems like IE treats
the anchors differently just because it's a local xsl file.

You're right about that IE doesn't use MSXML 4.0 - you should work against

what IE uses: 3.0 or make sure that your clients use 4.0 and use Javascript

to use the 4.0 version-specific dll classes.

 



Sorry I don't understand this - how can I make my IE use another version 
of MSXML?

(I have MSXML 3 and 4 installed in my windows/system folder, but I don't 
have a clue

if any program uses the 4.0 version, or how I could change that, or how 
Javascript

is involved in this)



Like Tom Passin already pointed out, serving an .xml or .xsl in IE will not
activate the html rendering feature, therefore the anchors do not appear. I
tried to make IE aware of how it should treat the .xsl:

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"
       doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
       doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
       media-type="html"/>

I first added the attribute media-type but nothing changed. Then I changed
the attribute method from xml to html. Nothing changed.

I'm afraid you will need to change the MIME-type that IE recieves from the
server that sends the file out.
See http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html

Thx! interesting article (I like reading Mark Pilgrim) but I don't think 
this can be solved with

MIME types because the error also occurs with "plain html" output (and, 
as it turned out, only

on local xsl files, so the server is the local filesystem) - BTW: MSXML3 
adds this meta tag to the

output: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16">



Anyway, thanks a lot
Anton