Making XML Human-Readable Without Xslt
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The article discusses ways to make XML human-readable without using XSLT, with commenters weighing in on the pros and cons of different approaches, particularly regarding validation and content types.
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It would be great if browsers were to support a header (or some other out-of-band signal) would allow me to attach some CSS + JS to my XML without any other changes to the XML content, and without changing the Content-Type header.
Specifically, I'd love to be able to keep my existing application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml Content-Type header and serve up a feed that satisfies a validating parser, but attaching CSS styling and/or JS content transformations.