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Does Netscape's Navigator support XML?

Does Mozilla support XML?

Nov 21st, 2000 06:53
Michael Claßen,

Netscape Navigator does not support XML in their 4.x versions. Support
is discussed for version 6, which includes parts of the Mozilla
codebase.
Mozilla uses XML in various places. The user interface layout is defined
using the Extensible User Interface Language (XUL) which has different
implementation on the different supported platforms but produces a
consistent look and feel in all those environments.
More important to the page author is the fact that XML documents can be
directly rendered when a CSS stylesheet is attached to them.
Unfortunately this is a different approach from Microsoft's which seems
to favor XSL over CSS2.
Creating XML pages that successfully display in both browsers is an even
bigger challenge than with HTML.
For details on XML support in popular browsers see
http://webreference.com/xml/column4/.