On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Rushforth, Peter
<Peter.Rushforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>
>>
>> I don't know much about the auto-launch issue, but if you
>> want to effect the mime type, you need to add it as an
>> attribute of the xsl:output element like so:
>>
>> <xsl:stylesheet>
>> <xsl:output  media-type="vnd.google-earth.kml+xml" />
>>
>> ...
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I tried that too but it didn't have any effect.  I think browsers may
> be hardwired to believe the result is html in such a situation, and they
> try to interpret it as such.
>

did you try
  <xsl:output  method="xml" media-type="vnd.google-earth.kml+xml" />

I would be mildly surprised if all browsers ignored that form.

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