IE not displaying xml

Problem displaying an xml rss feed in ie

[brucet]

I have set up an xml news feed on our site at. It works fine with My Yahoo! and a PHP RSS parser that one of our developers produced. It displays nicely in Firefox. And a copy on a local drive opens in IE OK. But IE refuses to display it from the server.

Does anyone have any idea why that might be? I have set permissions to 755 which should be sufficient AFAICS. The feed was generated by a free programme called List Garden. I can't really add an XML button to the site until the IE problem is fixed.

Thanks

Bruce Townsend

[edited by: engine at 2:12 pm (utc) on Feb. 25, 2005]
[edit reason] See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[choster]

Try checking the MIME type. Your server may be sending it as text/html by default, and/or IE may be trying to read it as HTML and delivering a blank page since it finds no HTML tags. I know on my machine, IE 5.5 will not display a well-formed XML file on a local drive if I give it an HTML file extension even though it works if I rename it something meaningless like .jqz .

[brucec]

What version of IE? It is supported with IE 5.5 and up.

[brucec]

What is your XML processing instruction? You may try to make it standalone by using:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>

This actually solved one of my XML display issues in Netscape. I am not sure if this is the issue with your IE, but it is worth a shot.