145156 - please add option for default xslt stylesheet for text/xml documents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64945

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[spongman]

It would be really nice if there was an option (not neccessarily UI) for
assigning a default XSL stylesheet to XML documents that don't specify a stylesheet.

Currently all you see when loading such an XML document is a blank page. I can't
imagine how this could be useful to anyone. Applying a default stylesheet would
make it easy to change this. For example, the default default could be a simple
stylesheet with a message, and developers wishing to see the structure of the
XML could format it how they wish...

IE renders XML documents in a collapsible tree using the following XSL stylesheet:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/samples/defaultss/defaultss.xsl

Nate Austin has converted this to W3C-conformant XSLT:
  http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/microsoft.html#d156e206

This view is extremely useful when developing XML-based web services.

Comment 1

[Dave]

Maybe Bug 64945?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes, exactly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64945 ***