Result of Transforming XML by XSLT in Different Browsers

Generally most of the browsers transform XMLs in 2 ways, I mean two kinds of APIs

For IE serial browsers, we got

xml.transformNode(xsl)

It's pretty easy, but the disadvantage is that the result is pure text.

Another way is supported by Mozilla, Opera, and Safari serial browsers

var processor = new XSLTProcessor(); processor.importStylesheet(xsl); var result = processor.transformToDocument(xml);

It returns a document as result, that's better than IE. The problem for these browsers is, the transform result from XSLT is expected to be ONE element. Which means the following kind of result is incorrect.

<div>...</div><div>...</div>

Because they are 2 elements.

In this situation, Firefox handle it in the way that wrap the result with a <transformiix:result /> tag. Whild Safari will show an error message (TOO bad).

To solve the problem, wrap the result with another tag like

<div>   <div>...</div>  <div>...</div> </div>

 Or another way

var result =processor.transformToFragment(xml, xml);

 For detail information of these APIs, go to the following link:

http://developer.mozilla.org/cn/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_JavaScript_interface_to_XSL_Transformations

Although non-IE serial browsers returns DOM element for us, we can not take the advantage of it because of cross-browser issues. Instead, we have to serialize the element into a string, and then we can deal with it in the same way as IE.

var xmls = new XMLSerializer(); var html = xmls.serializeToString(result);

(Tested in IE6, FF2, Safari3)