87181 - Viewing mime-type text/xml with no style sheets should display like text/plain

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64945

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Peter Davis]

If you request a file from a server with mime-type "text/xml" (and no
stylesheets), the tags are not displayed and text is formatted much like it is
when viewing an html page.

At the very least, mozilla should display the tags in the document and leave the
spacing between words in character data alone.

At the most (and even better), XML should be validated and displayed in
pretty-print style like IE currently does, but this may be overboard.  Maybe
have a pref to en/disable it?

The bottom line is, if I want to see the output of my XML files the way I write
them, I have to set the mime-type on my server to text/plain, but this breaks
the other applications I use.  I shouldn't have to set an external viewer to
send xml files to a text editor in order to see their natural formatting.

Comment 1

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

This is so close to another bug that I am marking this dupe.

But, just you know, what we are doing currently is ok by the CSS spec (all
elements have display: inline by default).

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

Comment 2

[Nick Bebout]

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