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May 22, 2005

Netscape 8 Breaks XSLT in Internet Explorer?

Some users report that after installing Netscape 8 Internet Explorer and other IE-based browsers usch as Avant browser stop applying XSLT stylesheets, even the default stylesheet used to render XML documents. That probably has something to do with "Firefox or IE6 rendering" feature in Netscape. Beware.

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May 22, 2005 12:51 PM | #XML , #XSLT

Comments

Many thanks for this - now I don't need to use Firefox for anything other than compatibility testing. :-)

Posted by: Rich at January 3, 2006 5:03 PM

The following post has the solution:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum26/162.htm
I've verified that this solution works. If Netscape 8 is not uninstalled the registry entry keeps coming back. Here is the text of that post:

OK to fix this issue uninstall Netscape and then
Hit START->RUN

Type: regedit

Hit ENTER

Navigate to the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Plugins\Extension

Highlight and right-click the node titled ".xml" and select delete.

Restart your browser and you should be good-to-go.

Posted by: PSoC Designer Rocks at May 25, 2005 3:39 AM

OK to fix this issue (after you uninstall Netscape) hit START->RUN

Type: regedit

Hit ENTER

Navigate to the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Plugins\Extension

Highlight and right-click the node titled "xml" and select delete.

Restart your browser and you should be good-to-go.

Posted by: Ken Bodensteiner at May 25, 2005 2:16 AM

My site was developed on IE6 to do XSL transformations of XML data. Now Netscape 8 has prevented me from seeing the site in IE6. I must use Firefox until someone (Microsoft, Netscape, Web experts) figures out how to getting working again.

Seems like the Netscape folks should have tested whether other browsers survive Netscape 8 installation.

Posted by: Chris Kimball at May 25, 2005 12:43 AM

I also installed Netscape 8 and it broke our application, PSoC Designer. Anyone know a good fix?

Posted by: Mark Hastings at May 24, 2005 12:04 AM

Cool. Happily I don't plan to install it.
Any workarounds/fixes?

Posted by: Oleg Tkachenko at May 22, 2005 5:12 PM

Yes, it breaks, including default XSLT stylesheet for rendering raw XML.

Posted by: ysw

at May 22, 2005 5:07 PM