479641 - default xml-stylesheet no longer applied to text/xml content

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Godmar Back]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

I'm using 3.0.6. Somewhere along the update path from FF 2.x I lost the ability to look at XML files in treeview using the nice default stylesheet. You used to display a message "The XML file does not have a stylesheet associated with it" and you would render it.

FF 3.0.6 appears to interpret the file as HTML (or something, but since it's all <elements>, nothing displays.)

That's sad because this was such a useful feature.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://libx.org/editions/vt.4/config.xml

Actual Results:  
An empty page is rendered

Expected Results:  
I'd like the treeview back

here's how I serve it:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:44:37 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:49:33 GMT
ETag: "2909a0-c84-4487a0e7b1540"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3204
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml

Comment 1

[Godmar Back]

For what it's worth, I also cannot see this file when looking at it locally via a chrome:// URL (this file is installed as part of a Firefox extension.)
From that, I conclude that it may not be the mimetype that leads recent versions of Firefox to refuse to display the file via the default stylesheet, but some other structural property.

The XML file is created using the Castor framework.
The relevant header is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE edition SYSTEM "http://libx.org/xml/libxconfig.dtd">

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Works for me with Firefox 3.0 and latest trunk on Windows XP.

Comment 3

[Godmar Back]

Turns out I was too fast attributing this to a change in Firefox.

It is was actually due to a auto-linking style script I am running on this page - this script injects a stylesheet into the page.

Apparently, this injection turns off XML rendering mode and turns on HTML mode.

To avoid this, is there a simple and quick way to find out if FF is in XML-rendering mode?