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In this Web Site we focus on the XML support in Internet
Explorer 5.0, because of poor support for XML in Netscape. Maybe
that will change.
XML on this Web Site
Many applications support XML. We focus on Internet Explorer
5.0.
Some of you have complained about this, but we do it simply
because this is the only practical way we know, to demonstrate
real XML examples for you over the Internet.
Sad to say - while we are waiting for Netscape - most of our
software examples will work only with IE5. If you want to learn
XML the easy way - with lots of examples for you to try out -
you will have to live with that.
XML in Netscape Navigator
Netscape has promised full XML support in its next browser.
We hope that Netscape will include standard support for the W3C
XML in its next version of the browser.
Based on previous experience we can only HOPE that Navigator and
Explorer XML will be compatible in the future.
Your option at the moment - if you want to work with cross
browser XML - is to work with
XML on your server and transform your XML to HTML before it is
sent to the browser.
XML in Internet Explorer 5.0
Internet Explorer 5.0 supports the XML 1.0 standard.
Internet Explorer 5.0 supports most of the international
standards for XML 1.0 and the XML DOM (Document Object Model).
These standards are set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Internet Explorer 5.0 has the following XML support:
· Viewing of XML documents
· Full support for W3C DTD standards
· XML embedded in HTML as Data Islands
· Binding XML data to HTML elements
· Transforming and displaying XML with XSL
· Displaying XML with CSS
· Access to the XML DOM
Internet Explorer 5.0 also has support for Behaviors:
· Behaviors is a Microsoft only Technology
· Behaviors can separate scripts from an HTML page.
· Behaviors can store XML data on the clients disk.
Examples of all these features are given in the next chapters of
this web site.
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