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why does XML data appear when using MSIE6 but not Opera??

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teka2112

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ive got some HTML code:

<html>
<head>
<title>news test</title>
</head>
<body>

<xml id=&quot;news&quot; src=&quot;/news.xml&quot;></xml>

<table datasrc=&quot;#news&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot;>
<tr>
<td align=&quot;center&quot;>

<p><span datafld=&quot;content&quot;></span></p>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

using the XML source file news.xml:

<?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot; ?>
<NEWS>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>01/11/2003</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>Our FORUM is up.</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>Our CHAT ROOM is up.</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>Our WAP SITE is up.</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>We have added a links page to our WAP site. You can now browse many different WAP sites from your handset!</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>There will be new content added as we are able. Thanks for your uploads! keep 'em coming.</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>General web site content will be ongoing also - please be patient.</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
<BLIP>
<CONTENT>Thank You!</CONTENT>
</BLIP>
</NEWS>


I am able to see they XML data when using MSIE, but not in my Opera browser...

any ideas??

thanks
 
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That's simple : Opera don't have any plug-in to parse XML. I think that IE5, Netscape and Mozilla does (not sure for mozilla...) but Opera is still under heavy developpement...
 
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oh - ok thanks

bummer

I thought it would handle XML... oh well
 
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>> any ideas??

If u want to support many browsers do ur transformation on the server.

-pete
 
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I think using XML Data Islands only works on IE version 5.5 and up.

 
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