Michael Kalua

Good Afternoon,

I am a very amateur programmer, less than 3 months of experience.  I have 
been assigned the task of taking an xml file and providing my company's 
website with the ability to manipulate and display its contents in a 
specified layout given to me by the site's graphic designer.  Using php and 
xsl I have achieved my goals after hours of toiling behind a simple text 
editor and pouring over books, forums, online tutorials and manuals.  
Triumphantly I presented my results to the graphic designer only to be cut 
down at the knees when he viewed my achievement with Safari 1.2.  I tested 
all of my code in IE 6.0.2 and it works flawlessly.  In Safari my wonderful 
xsl stylesheet is discarded and a large blob of unfriendly black text on a 
white background is all that he can see.

I read your website, most of which flew straight over my head since I have 
not learned javascript, and it looks as if you have the solution.  I will be 
diving in to your tutorial, how to's and the world of javascript later this 
evening.  Thank you in advance for providing this information.

Finally my question: is your XMLHttpRequest javascript the only life 
preserver out there?  I noticed an email posting on your site that spoke of 
server side xsl.  Is there any way you could provide me with a more in depth 
explanation of this possibility?  All I want to do is take this xml file and 
show the world what is inside it within the layout given to me by my graphic 
designer.  Unfortunately for me the only ones who can see what I have done 
are the borg that have been assimilated with IE 6.

Thank you in advance for any help you may give me,

Cheers

Mike K

Good Afternoon,

Thank you so much for replying to my last email asking if your script was 
the only life preserver out there for supporting my opera and safari users.  
When you suggested that I use server side scripting via *.asp I began to 
research the possibility immediately.  As I googled and read, googled and 
read some more I came across a new function of PHP5 that I had not yet 
investigated; XsltProcessor().  This has turned out to be the answer to what 
I want to do.

The code that I used to achieve this is not of my own making, which irks me 
to no end.  I do not like taking samples of code from people and calling 
them my own.  I do not have this person's real name but their handle on the 
forum I found was "diagi," so the credit goes to them.  Code is as follows:

<?

$xml = new DomDocument();
$xml->load('news.xml');

$xsl = new DomDocument();
$xsl->load('news.xsl');

$xslt = new XsltProcessor();
$xslt->importStylesheet($xsl);

$transformation = $xslt->transformToXml($xml);
echo $transformation;

?>

The original code had different file names, of course, so I edited that 
portion and executed the code.  All came out perfect.  I have in front of 
me, three monitors.  Each one is viewing the same page, one with safari, one 
with mozilla and one with IE6.  They all look identical.

I am getting ready to show my graphic designer, the one that cut me off at 
the knees about safari and opera.  Wish me luck.  Server side scripting 
works for me!

Good day to you!

Cheers,

Mike K