{"id":141,"date":"2008-07-01T15:56:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T23:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=141"},"modified":"2010-12-15T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T03:07:16","slug":"linking-to-xml-stylesheet-stored-on-local-server-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/07\/linking-to-xml-stylesheet-stored-on-local-server-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking to XML Stylesheet Stored on Local Server in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem<\/h3>\n

I created an XML stylesheet which I wanted to place on a local Samba share. In the XML file to be transformed, I placed a file:\/\/<\/tt> URI in the xml-stylesheet<\/tt> tag, but it wouldn’t work in Firefox. Internet Explorer would happily format the content as expected, but Firefox simply displayed a rather uninformative error:<\/p>\n

Error loading stylesheet: (null)<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cause<\/h3>\n

As it turns out, I was formatting the URI incorrectly.<\/p>\n

Solution<\/h3>\n

Proper URI formatting for the file<\/tt> protocol requires three<\/b> slashes to establish an empty authority or host segment, followed by the full path, with all backslashes converted to forward slashes. Since it was a path to a file on a local Samba server, which normally begins with two backslashes, this means I needed a total of five<\/b> forward slashes following file:<\/tt>!<\/p>\n

So, given a Windows-style path such as:<\/p>\n

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\\myserver\mypath\mystylesheet.xslt<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The corresponding URI would be:<\/p>\n
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file:\/\/\/\/\/myserver\/mypath\/mystylesheet.xslt<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Yielding an xml-stylesheet<\/tt> tag like<\/p>\n
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<?xml-stylesheet type=\"text\/xsl\"\r\n                 href=\"file:\/\/\/\/\/myserver\/mypath\/mystylesheet.xslt\"><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Reference<\/h3>\n
MozillaZine:  Links to local pages don’t work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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