Viviasoft.com - XML Support of Browsers

XML Support of Browsers

This website is mainly encoded in XML. To get the best interface, we recommend using browser supporting XML1.0/XSLT, such as IE6 or later version, or IE5 or later version adding Microsoft's XML package.

Download XML package msxml3 + Replace Mode tool (for IE5.5/IE5/IE4)
English version(620k) Simplified Chinese version(620k)

And Microsoft has published a newer version of msxml4. You could go to Microsoft's website to download it.

Download Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 (for Win9x/NT)
For the users of Win9x/NT operating system, the installing of msxml3 may need Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0. ( If the operating system is win2000/XP, or some new softeware have been installed, such as Office 2000 or some recent service packages, then the software has been included.)
for Win9x (1.6M) for NT (1.7M)

Click here for more information about Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/instmsi.htm

Comparison of Browsers

The following is a summary of different kinds of browsers' supporting for XML1.0.


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Browsers     XML  XSLT   Update   XML(updated)  XSLT(updated)   Full XML support
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IE6.0         Y     Y                                             Y
IE5.0         Y     N    msxml3      Y            Y               Y
IE4.01        N          msxml3      Y            N
Netscape4.5   N
Netscape7.0   Y     N
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About the Replace-Mode of MSXML3

The Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 Release installs the MSXML 3.0 parser (msxml3.dll) in side-by-side mode, which means that installing the MSXML 3.0 parser will not cause any previously installed version of the parser to be replaced. Both the new parser and the old one will reside "side-by-side" on your computer.
To ensure that XSL Transformations (XSLT) work on the system and with Internet Explorer 5.0 and later, install the Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 in Replace mode. This replaces the registry entries for earlier versions of MSXML.

--From Microsoft MSDN

Test your browser's support for XML

Click on below linkage, and you will see a new page for testing your browser's support for XML. If you get a message asking if you want to download the file, or you only get a page with no formatted text, then your browser may be not supporting XML or not supporting full XML function.

Click here to open the test page

How to install the fonts of different languages for UNICODE

Although UNICODE supports multi-language encoding, the code will display properly only if its corresponding font is installed.
For Win2000/XP, the system will support UNICODE fonts if some components are added in the control panel. Many articles on the operating detail can be search out from the Internet.
For Win9x/NT, most of UNICODE fonts can be installed from the full version of IE5 setup package. It's also effective for the system of win2000/XP.
Install steps: 1) Unpack the language package, 2) right click on the corresponding install file(*.inf), select "Install". 3) copy all font files(*.ttf) to the "Fonts" folder of the system, or click "Control panel->Fonts->Menu->Install new fonts" and install all *.ttf files to the system.

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Package      File Size       *.inf         Language Name
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ielpkar.cab      306,590    AR.INF        Arabic
ielpkiw.cab      314,933    IW.INF        Hebrew
ielpkja.cab    2,880,666    JA.INF        Japanese
ielpkko.cab    2,296,277    KO.INF        Korean
ielpkpe.cab    1,937,338    PANEUR.INF    Pan-European
ielpkth.cab      687,763    TH.INF        Thai
ielpkvi.cab      445,670    VI.INF        Vietnamese
ielpkzhc.cab   2,869,970    CN.INF        Chinese (Simplified)
ielpkzht.cab   4,125,126    TW.INF        Chinese (Traditional)
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* all of this files are from Microsoft's installation software of IE5,
  the copyright is reserved by Microsoft.

Created : 2003-9-9 21:32:46 Last Modified : 2003-10-30 10:39:49