I am supposed to create an actually kind of simple table with data from an xml file for our school website. I have the XML and a xsl stylesheet, but whatever I do, the table won't show. I also get parsing errors in other browsers than IE. Unfortunately I am not very familiar with XML. I tried some php5 methods, mostly with simplexml but couldn't get them to work properly.
Any hint on why the table doesn't show and an advise for a cross-browser alternative would be much appreciated.
Here is a snippet of the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="wftemplate1.xsl"?>
<databases filename="Classtests">
<database>
<row>
<column name="spalte1">Class</column>
<column name="spalte2">Subject</column>
<column name="spalte3">Teacher</column>
<column name="spalte4">Date</column>
</row>
</database>
<details>
<row>
<column name="spalte1">1A</column>
<column name="spalte2">D</column>
<column name="spalte3">ABC</column>
<column name="spalte4">11.11.2012</column>
</row>
<row>
<column name="spalte1"> </column>
<column name="spalte2"> </column>
<column name="spalte3">ABC</column>
<column name="spalte4">11.01.2013</column>
</row>
.
.
.
</details>
</databases>
And here is the current xsl stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<!-- Überschrift -->
<div style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:14pt; font-weight:bold;">
<xsl:value-of select="databases/@filename" />
</div>
<p />
<!-- Beginn der Tabelle -->
<table border="1">
<!-- Kopfzeile -->
<xsl:for-each select="databases/database/row">
<tr>
<xsl:for-each select="column">
<td bgcolor="C0C0C0">
<div style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:9pt; font-weight:bold;">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</div>
</td>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- Datenzeilen -->
<xsl:for-each select="databases/details/row">
<tr bgcolor="#80FFFF">
<xsl:for-each select="column">
<td>
<div style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:9pt;">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</div>
</td>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
<p />
<div style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:7pt; font-weight:bold;">
Ende der Liste </div>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
From looking at your XSLT, you are using the legacy namespace http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl which is no supported in IE9.
See XSLT Compatability on the MSDN website for more details.
Try changing the namespace of your XSLT file to http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform and see how you get on.