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Firefox rendering of CSS-defined ordered lists in arbitrary

jon_noring Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:39 am

Joined: 05 May 2005

Posts: 6

Firefox rendering of CSS-defined ordered lists in arbitrary

[This question may be a little outside of the general interest of
xml-doc, but undoubtedly some here have encountered this issue when
trying to use CSS to render some non-XHTML XML document using a web
browser.]

O.k., I give up. I surrender. Shoot me and put me out of my misery.

I`ve been trying to figure out how to render, using CSS, ordered lists
in arbitrary (non-HTML) XML documents.

Here`s an example XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="orderedlist.css" type="text/css"?>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>First list item</listitem>
<listitem>Second list item</listitem>
<listitem>Third list item</listitem>
</orderedlist>

According to my interpretation of CSS2/2.1, the following CSS should
work for all CSS2/2.1-conforming user agents (no counters needed
unless one wants to do some non-conventional list item numbering):

orderedlist {display: block;
margin-left: 2.0em;
list-style-type: decimal}
listitem {display: list-item}

Both Opera 8 and IE6 display the above example XML document correctly
using this CSS style sheet, but Firefox gives all "0." for the list
item numbering.

So, I`ve been playing around with various counter mechanisms and the
like (which I`m not an expert at), and have been frustrated. A Google
search did not reveal anything useful, so if the answer is findable
via Google, it`s well hidden. (I tried the old Mozilla custom CSS
"-moz-counter-reset" property, but nada -- couldn`t get it to work in
Firefox.)

So, how does one render, in Firefox, ordered lists in non-HTML XML
documents using CSS?

Thanks.

Jon Noring

dirtroad30534 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:03 pm

Joined: 13 Jun 2003

Posts: 39

Firefox rendering of CSS-defined ordered lists in arbitrary

> I`ve been trying to figure out how to render, using CSS, ordered lists
> in arbitrary (non-HTML) XML documents. ...
>
> Both Opera 8 and IE6 display the above example XML document correctly
> using this CSS style sheet, but Firefox gives all "0." for the list
> item numbering.

FWIW, Camino 1.0 does the same thing (not surprising, since it`s also
using Gecko). Safari displays it correctly though.

Looks like a bug in the Gecko engine to me. Can you perhaps transform
the XML to do something more usable?

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