Should XML files where stylesheet can't be found fallback to displaying like one w/o a stylesheet?

[David Carlson]

When viewing an XML document without something like
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="MyStylesheet.xsl"?> in it, you will get the raw XML document displayed in the browser.

If an XML document does have <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="MyStylesheet.xsl"?>, but that href isn't findable, the browser just displays an empty page.  On top of that, at least in Chrome, you can't even right click to see the source.  You can get to see it finally some other ways, but it is cumbersome.

I get that if someone is putting xml-stylesheet in the document, they would like that stylesheet to be used for display.   But if it isn't where it is stated, why shouldn't the backup be to just do what it would have done if the xml-stylesheet wasn't there in the first place, and show the raw XML?

To Firefox's credit, they at least put on the screen ""Error loading stylesheet: Parsing an XSLT stylesheet failed."", which is at least better than a blank screen, but still not ideal IMO.

Thoughts?

[David Carlson]

No discussion here.... nobody else pulls up XML docs in Chrome? :)

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[David Carlson]

The "what" is I'm just saying, I believe I've clearly laid out an issue/bug with how Chrome deals with XML file display.  Seems like "we" (the community) should try to give ideas on what to do to fix it.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:04 AM EMMAH MATTHEWS <15...@stu.mvschool.org> wrote:

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