Internet Explorer and XML Data Islands

The Internet Explorer supports a special tag, <XML>, that you can use to create XML islands. An XML island can enclose either straight XML or a reference to an XML document. For more on XML islands and how to create them, see Chapter 7 in Inside XML.

XML islands make it easy to load XML and XSL documents, so they’re worth taking a look at here. In the following example, I create two XML islands, sourceDocument and stylesheet, and load planets.xml and planets.xsl just by referring to them with the src attribute:

<HTML> 
    <HEAD> 
        <TITLE> 
            The Planets Table 
        </TITLE> 

        <XML id="sourceDocument" src="planets.xml"></XML> 
        <XML id="stylesheet" src="planets.xsl"></XML> 
        . 
        . 
        .

Now all I have to do to perform the XSLT transformation ...

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