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oky_sabeni
oky_sabeni

Reputation: 7822

Chrome, Safari, Firefox outputs XML differently

I have this curious question. I was looking at XML files and so I did this twitter search: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=basketball

The output for Chrome looks like this: enter image description here

The output for Firefox looks like this: enter image description here

Then, the output for Safari looks like this: enter image description here

My question is, what is going on? How can I get the browser to display it in different forms. In other words, if I want to output the <?xml ..., how can I do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2273

Answers (4)

Boaz Yaniv
Boaz Yaniv

Reputation: 6424

Well, this is is not just any XML, but an Atom file (Atom is a standard for feeds, like RSS). The browsers (except for chrome) recognize it as such, and format it according to how they format feeds. If you want to view the XML source, just use your browser's View Source function (usually found at the right-click menu).

Upvotes: 0

Blindy
Blindy

Reputation: 67376

You most likely never want your end-users to look at raw XML anyway. Different browsers decorate raw XML as they wish to make it easier to find stuff in them, but it's still useless as a presentation format.

You should instead link your XML file with an XSLT file to transform it into HTML for presentation purposes.

Upvotes: 0

Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 2920

Some browsers will render XML with a namespace that they recognize. You can always 'view source' to see the text.

Upvotes: 0

JW.
JW.

Reputation: 51658

If you want the browser to output the <?xml ..., send a header that makes the browser think it's a text file, not an XML file:

Content-Type: text/plain

Upvotes: 1

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