monstermunch - 4:25 pm on Oct 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

My understanding was that the latest Firefox and IE browsers had RSS rendering engines built in. Thus reducing the need for an XSLT file to render RSS in the browser.

My predecessor has set-up an itunes compliant podcasting RSS feed that renders ok in Firefox without an XSLT file. This would seem to confirm that an XSLT file isn't a requirement to render rss in Firefox and IE7+.

However, I created a test news feed using feedforall, I saved this to my desktop and when I open it in the browser I just see the raw XML and a message which reads "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

I'm now totally confused. Do I need XSLT to render RSS in Firefox and IE7+ or not?

I'm very new to RSS so any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks

ps here's code for the test news feed I created with feedforall -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>livePublicLecturesAndEvents</title>
<description>A listing of public lectures and events from The London School of Economics and Political Science due to be broadcast live on the their website at the following web address - http://www.example.com/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/live/LSELive.htm</description>
<link>http://www.example.com/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/live/LSELive.htm</link>
<category domain="">Education</category>
<copyright>London School of Economics and Political Science</copyright>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<language>en-gb</language>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:58:20 +0100</lastBuildDate>
<managingEditor>myemail@example.com</managingEditor>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:45:12 +0100</pubDate>
<webMaster>myemail@example.com</webMaster>
<generator>FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com</generator>
<item>
<title>Hot, Flat and Crowded - Tuesday 14 October 2008</title>
<description>Date: Tuesday 14 October 2008&lt;br&gt;
Time: 6.30-8pm GMT&lt;br&gt;
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building&lt;br&gt;
Speaker: Thomas L Friedman&lt;br&gt;
Chair: Professor Eric Neumayer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Thomas L Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of our biggest challenges – the global environmental crisis and America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 – and shows how they’re linked. He argues that we need American commitment and leadership in a green revolution, a revolution that will be the biggest innovation project in history, one that will inspire us to summon all the intelligence, creativity, boldness and concern for the common good that are our greatest human resources.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Thomas L Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes and The World is Flat, winner of the first Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link>http://www.example.com/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2008/20080819t1353z001.htm</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">3191A104-4566-4BD0-8510-C897B52F56F4</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:35:46 +0100</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

[edited by: bill at 4:15 am (utc) on Oct. 14, 2008]
[edit reason] Don't link to live feeds please [/edit]