Firefox and remote XSL stylesheets

Question

I’m trying to load local XML files with a remote XSL stylesheet. IE seems to handle this just fine but not firefox. Is there a fix for this?

Answer 1

A few things to check:

Check that you're using the right mime-type and character encoding on the server side. Firefox will work out the encoding for itself when loading a local file, but will honour the server mime-type/encoding declaration when requesting from the server.

I've seen a few posts (eg here) that claim that Firefox simply doesn't support loading remote XSL templates using absolute paths. I doubt this, and suspect it's more likely the mime issue as per above leading them to believe this, but it might be worth asking Mozilla about this directly.

Finally, have you tested that the XSL stylesheet works when pulled locally? And can you confirm that it is really XSLT, and not one of Microsoft's bizarre IE-only XSL variants, such as WD-XSL?

Answer 2

I've had issues with Firefox performing the transform correctly, but was able to fix it by adding the XHTML namespace.

See the following for more info: How can I make XSLT work in chrome?