Hi Tom,



What do you mean by "broken"?  Do you mean that the page looks right but

nothing happens when you click on one of the links?  Or does the page

not look as expected?

 



The page looks right, and when I hover the links, the status bar shows 
the correct URL

(file:///C:/.../anchors.xsl#s2) but when I click on one of the links, IE 
shows its errorpage

"The page cannot be displayed" with error msg "Cannot find server or DNS 
Error"



It sounds like IE gets confused when you try to load an xsl document as

the xml source.  Perhaps IE is trying to be too smart for its own good,

and makes a guess about what you want, which unfortunately is a wrong

guess.  Or perhaps IE has a bug that is preventing the links from being

interpreted as hyperlinks when it transforms a file with the .xsl

extension.  You didn't say if you were loading the file from the file

system or through a web server, and it might even be that you would get

different results in the two cases.

 



!! Now there's a new element, and it becomes even stranger to me... I 
was pretty sure

that I had tested both cases, but now I see that the error only occurs 
if I load the xsl

from the local filesystem. So you're right: different results in the two 
cases.



I have put a testcase online so everyone who wants can try it out
(same stylesheet I already posted earlier):

http://users.telenet.be/cking/webstuff/test/anchors/anchors.xsl
http://users.telenet.be/cking/webstuff/test/anchors/test.xml
http://users.telenet.be/cking/webstuff/test/anchors/test.xsl

If you open these links in IE, the anchors work. But if you download the 
files and display

the local copies in IE, they are broken (except for test.xml: that one 
works, although

it's exactly the same file as test.xsl, only the name is different). 
Apart from the broken

links, the pages look perfectly correct (CSS styles included).



If it is an IE bug, there could be an easy workaround, although you

would have to try it out to make sure it works with IE.  Use a dummy

file for your source, as in your cut-down example above.  In the root

(and only) element, include the url of the file you actually want to

transform (like the stylesheet).  Get that document using document(),and

transform that instead of the dummy source document.

 



Yeah I guess I could do that but in this particular case it doesn't help 
much; the whole point

of my xdoc experiment is to be able to just open a stylesheet in a 
browser to view it with its

documentation.. Well, it's not that important, I just wanted to find out 
what happens, and why,

and it seems more and more obvious that this is a bug in IE. Another 
reason to "get Firefox"?

(I really like Firefox, it's my default browser for quite some time already)



Alternatively, use the dummy source file without the url of the real

target, and feed the url in as a parameter, then get the document using

document() and transform it as above.

 



How can I pass parameters in IE (or in Moz, for that matter)? I always 
thought that's not possible..



I admit this is a bit strange, but if you actually are dealing with an
IE bug, it might work, and it wouldn't be very hard to implement.

Cheers,



Tom P



Thanx,
Anton