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Are XslTs clientside or serverside?
I'm coding some XSLts for the company I work for, but they've asked me to make sure the XSLts are clientside (the clients pc does all the work, not our webservers). Is there a way I can ensure this, or are they clientside ANYWAY...?
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- XSLT transformations can be performed on either the server or client side, but are generally handled on the server side down to poor/inconsistent support on clients. It sounds like your company is only intending support for IE clients, which is extremely poor form - push them to do the transformations on the server if possible.
- XSLT can be done both on the serverside and client side. To serve client side, you need to be serving your documents as MIME type application/xml and include an XML stylesheet declaration. e.g. <?xml version="1.0" ?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/myxslt.xsl"?> <rest of xml document .......> Browsers support is not actually so bad. IE5.5+, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror will all handle correctly. For extra brownie points you could also implement a browser detect and look for the browers "Accept" header (firefox's accept header looks like: Accept: text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/html; q=0.9, text/plain; q=0.8, image/png, */*; q=0.5 ) If application/xml is not in the header you can fall back to serverside. The number of clients that you end up serving serverside transforms to will be very small.
