The short answer is “No, use one of the diverse set of browsers out there”. The reason this doesn’t work is due to a security concern that Chrome has addressed in a controversial way[1][2][3][4], by blocking XML files from accessing local XSLT files in the same directory, while HTML files can access .CSS files in … Read more
A newline (aka line break or end-of-line, EOL) is special character or character sequence that marks the end of a line of text. The exact codes used vary across operating systems: LF: Unix CR: Mac OS up to version 9 CR+LF: Windows, DOS You can use 
 for line feed (LF) or 
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How could I get the value of lang (where lang=eng in book title), for the first element? Use: /*/book[1]/title/@lang This means: Select the lang attribute of the title element that is a child of the first book child of the top element of the XML document. To get just the string value of this attribute … Read more
Running XSLT in a Web Browser Running XSLT in the browser is subject to some limitations: XSLT 2.0 is not supported by any of the major web browsers. Browser security models differ regarding XSLT processing. Cross-domain restrictions will often require that the XSLT load from the same origin as the the XML. (This appears to … Read more
Namespaces are URIs that need not be retrievable From @jww question: The question is whether the namespace end-point(=”http://xxxxx/ws”) needs to be a valid url? No, an XML namespace takes the lexical form of a URI but does not have to be retrievable according to W3C Recommendation: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition): The attribute’s normalized … Read more
I don’t use xmllint, but I think the reason your XPath isn’t working is because your doc.xml file is using a default namespace (http://purl.org/net/ulf/ns/0.4-02). From what I can see, you have 2 options. A. Use xmllint in shell mode and declare the namespace with a prefix. You can then use that prefix in your XPath. … Read more
Faster is not an attribute of JSON or XML or a result that a comparison between those would yield. If any, then it is an attribute of the parsers or the bandwidth with which you transmit the data. Here is (the beginning of) a list of advantages and disadvantages of JSON and XML: JSON Pro: … Read more
A couple of reasons that this can happen: 1) You see this error with an incorrect namespace, or a typo in the attribute. Like ‘xmlns’ is wrong, it should be xmlns:android 2) First node needs to contain: xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” 3) If you are integrating AdMob, check custom parameters like ads:adSize, you need xmlns:ads=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads” 4) If you … Read more
In XML 1.0, the XML Declaration is optional. See section 2.8 of the XML 1.0 Recommendation, where it says it “should” be used — which means it is recommended, but not mandatory. In XML 1.1, however, the declaration is mandatory. See section 2.8 of the XML 1.1 Recommendation, where it says “MUST” be used. It … Read more
The current node is whatever the template is currently operating on. Normally this happens to also be the context node, but the context node has special meaning within a nested XPath expression (the part in square brackets). There, it refers to whatever node is currently being tested for a match. Hence, the context node changes … Read more