Client-Side XML and Browser Support

The time has arrived when XML can be used successfully and predictably in Internet Explorer and Netscape. Although IE has provided XML support for some time now, Netscape has just recently been able to offer client-side XML and XSL support.

Netscape Gecko and Netscape 6 now include the open source Expat parser written by James Clark. He was the technical lead of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XML activity that developed the XML 1.0 recommendation. The result is that XML in Netscape is reliably parsed according to specification.

Although XML support is here, separate code must be written to take advantage of the client-side XML capabilities of both browsers due to differences in the API. In a perfect ...

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