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XML Atom feed IE6 and Firefox vs. IE7 problem

Jan 11th, 2008

Hello...I've been trying to figure out this problem for most of the week - it's my second attempt at any XML and my first at XSLT so I haven't got a complete grasp of what I'm doing yet. Any help will be muchly appreciated.

The problem is, the code below validates and works in IE7 (obviously with their pre-set stylesheet). In IE6 the text describing the feed from the XSL file displays, but none of the actual news items between the <entry> tags of the XML file do i.e. the whole point of having the feed!

There is a way it DOES work in IE6 and Firefox 1.5, but doesn't work in IE7 (I'll explain below the code).

news-test.asp (generated with ASP and with company info removed):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="news-feed.xsl"?>
<feed xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

  <title>-- Latest News</title>
  <updated>2008-01-11T11:00:00+00:00</updated>
  <id>tag:www.--.co.uk,2007-12-03:/news.asp</id>
  <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.--.co.uk/news.asp"/>
  <link rel="self" href="http://www.--.co.uk/news-feed.asp"/>
  <rights>--</rights>
  <logo>http://www.--.co.uk/feed/logo.gif</logo>

  <author>
  	<name>--</name>
	<uri>http://www.--.co.uk</uri>
  </author>
		 
  <entry>
    <title>Title</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.--.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=2197"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Blah blah blah...]]></content>
    <id>tag:www.--.co.uk,2007-12-03:/news_story.asp?id=2197</id>
    <updated>2008-01-11T11:00:00+00:00</updated>
  </entry>
 
  <entry>
    <title>Title</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.--.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=2196"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Blah blah blah...]]></content>
    <id>tag:www.--.co.uk,2007-12-03:/news_story.asp?id=2196</id>
    <updated>2008-01-10T16:50:00+00:00</updated>
  </entry>
 
  <entry>
    <title>Title</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.--.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=2195"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Blah blah blah...]]></content>
    <id>tag:www.--.co.uk,2007-12-03:/news_story.asp?id=2195</id>
    <updated>2008-01-10T14:49:00+00:00</updated>
  </entry>
		
</feed>

news-feed.xsl:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:output method="html" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<body style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:#ffffff">
	
	<h2 style="color: #ff3300;">PPP/PFI News</h2>
	
		<div style="font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0.5em 0em 1em 0em;">
			This page is for the <a href="http://www.--.co.uk">www.--.co.uk</a> News syndication feed. Feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and features by adding the feed address to a news aggregator program, or to your own website.
			<br /><br />There are various ways to subscribe, including:
			<ul><li>Dragging the orange feed button (<a href="news-feed.asp"><img src="feed/feed.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" hspace="1" style="vertical-align: middle;" /></a>) or URL of the feed into your News Reader software</li>
			<li>Cutting and pasting the URL of the feed into your News Reader</li>
			</ul>
			The latest content for this feed can be viewed below.
		</div>
	
	<xsl:for-each select="feed/entry">
	
		<div style="color:#000000; padding: 0.3em;">
	  
			<h3 style="font-size: 1em; padding: 0em; margin: 0em;">
			<a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="link/@href"/></xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="title" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></a>
			</h3>
			
		</div>
		
		<div style="margin-left: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; font-size:0.8em;">
			<xsl:value-of select="description"/>
			
			<span><xsl:value-of select="content"/></span>
		</div>
	
	</xsl:for-each>
	</body>
	</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It works in IE6 and Firefox but DOESN'T display in IE7 ("internet explorer does not support this feed format") if I change the namespace declaration from
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
to
<feed xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
or infact if I add any bit of random text like :aaaaaaaargh there

Thanks for looking.

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