IE9 and Chrome not rendering XML with XSL if XML is local and XSL is on remote server
Does this work locally? I do not think so because there are some errors in both XML and XSLT.
Chrome blocks local XML and XSLT processing! It is a issue or they disabled it for security reasons. Look at this Chrome Bug Report for some work-arounds.
IE9 disabled the support of mixture of local XML and remote XSLT. Also for security reasons! (I do not have a link for that)
Your XML needs to have at least one root element:
<?xml version="1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.test.com/AuditTrail.xsl"?><hello/>and your XSLT needs to have some XSLT templates:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head><title>Test</title></head> </html></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>With this corrections this example will work for IE8 and Firefox.
In Chrome the XML and XSLT needs to be on a webserver. In IE9 both need to be on a webserver or locally stored (without mixture).
We have a desktop application that generates XML reports and displays them in a browser, transformed with stylesheets that are hosted on a remote server
I think that simplest way is to download or store/cache (last copy of) stylesheet via HTTP protocol on user's local hard disk (using that application) and then perform "fully-legal" client-side transformation.