217957 - XML "Basic Style" is different for styled and unstyled XML

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XML, enhancement)

Description

[Jan Egil Kristiansen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

http://landsbank.fo/test/styled.xml has a "Basic Page Style" that is different
from the basic style used for unstyled.xml.

These are really two different styles, "all inline" and "tree", and both should
be available, no matter if the stylesheet processing instruction is present, or not.

Btw, page source is really also a "style".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Wladimir Palant]

The View menu allows switching between different CSS stylesheets. However, the
"unstyled" view it is not just another CSS stylesheet, the document itself is
transformed into HTML (you can see the difference if you select some text and
choose "View Selection Source" from the context menu). I don't think switching
"unstyled" view on and off can be done.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The prettyprinter view is not an "unstyled" view; it's a "document author did
something really dumb, so we're going to try to make it palatable" view.

Turning off style in an actual document that's properly styled should do just
that -- turn off style.  Nothing else.

So I feel that this bug is invalid.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Right; if people want a real DOM view of the styled version, they should use the
DOM inspector.

Maybe we should offer user stylesheets (like Opera) one of which links to the
pretty printer XBL. But that's a separate RFE.