XSLT handling from a POST

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

It turns out that XMLHttpRequest does not respect xml-stylesheet or,  
indeed, any other processing instructions in the response from the  
server. One has to manually apply the stylesheet in Javascript to the  
response!

	Cheers,

	Matthew
	

On Sep 18, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a XML document which I am serving to a web browser and  
> including a processing instruction so that the browser applies an  
> XSLT to the document to format it correctly. Now this works fine for  
> my first page which is retrieved via an HTTP GET. Now this is a form  
> and the next page is returned as a result of the HTTP POST that the  
> form initiates.
>
> The next page is also an XML document with the same processing  
> instruction to invoke an XSLT but none of the browsers I have tried  
> (Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 10) apply the XSLT and just render it  
> as XML. I am even setting the Content-Type of the response to   
> "application/xhtml+xml' to try and invoke a XSLT but this is not  
> working.
>
> Does anyone know a workaround/solution for this?
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>