[thelist] IE6 and XML with XSLT printing troubles

[Mark Kennedy]

Hi Diane,

Can I/we see the stylesheet in question?  I don't know much about the 
MSXML XSLT processor, but I do know XSLT and maybe there's an infinite 
recursion you haven't spotted, that IE manages to detect and halt in 
some cases but not when printing.

Sorry if this sounds like a complete stab in the dark, but your problem 
does sound odd.

Mark


Diane Soini wrote:
> I've taken an RDF XML file and applied a simple XSL style sheet to 
> layout the data in a basic HTML table, minus the unnecessary columns. 
> Nothing fancy, nothing you wouldn't find in a basic tutorial. It renders 
> faithfully in Windows IE6.
> 
> The resulting table fits in about 3 pages with landscape orientation, so 
> it's not a whole lot. However, when I go to actually print the document 
> (from IE6), the size of the file sent to the printer approaches 
> infinity. I watch in print preview as the page number approaches 1000. I 
> nearly killed an entire forest of trees before I realized what was 
> happening.
> 
> I've tried also opening the XML file with Excel. It does the same thing, 
> filling in rows for all eternity, unless I opt out of applying the style 
> sheet. (I have Office 2003 on XP Pro, by the way.)
> 
> I also cannot copy and paste the data from IE6 into another document. 
> All it copies is the URL to the XML file. And, I cannot open another 
> different XML file at the same time in a new window. When I do, the 
> first browser window also opens the new file.
> 
> What the heck?? Is this a common problem? Is there a fix? It would be 
> really handy if my supervisor could just open up the file that resides 
> on the server in IE or Excel in order to see all the data rather than me 
> remembering to update a separate file with the data. I have no server 
> technology available, so I thought this might suffice. Help!
> 
> Diane
>