>MSDN features an article dated January 26 on a SIMPLE technology
>we should like to use for our package intranet extension.
>
>Extract :
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>"The XSL ISAPI Extension is invoked each time that a file with the extension ".xml" is requested from the server. It checks the client browser type in the HTTP user agent string and decides whether to pass the XML directly to the client or to perform an XSL transformation and return the result.
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>By default, the XSL ISAPI Extension passes XML directly to clients reporting "MSIE 5" (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5) and attempts to perform XSL transformation for all other browser clients."
>

I haven't read the article.

I suspect that the extension is using the same default stylesheet that IE5 uses to display XML, when no stylesheet is specified.

I don't think that this is a good idea at all. Who is to say that IE 5 is the only agent that can use the untransformed XML? For example, when we use wwIPStuff to pull XML down from a web server, the user agent is listed as "West-Wind Web Connection". With this extension installed, a program using wwIPStuff would get transformed DHTML instead of XML, which is useless to me. the client should be responsible for choosing if the xml is transformed or not.

What good is displaying generically transformed XML in a browser anyway, outside of developer testing?