Aral Balkan

Firefox displays XML files without stylesheets in its own default style sheet (instead of displaying the XML itself). This is nice when you want a human-readable representation of the XML file but it falls flat when you want to use XPather to examine the actual XML (instead you get the DOM structure for the transformed HTML file).

If you want to see the actual XML source in XPather, you need to turn off the default XML stylesheet: with the Web Developer extension installed, select Tools → Web Developer → CSS → Disable Styles → Browser Default Styles.

Once you do that, you can use XPather to examine the actual XML source.

Comments

• The default shortcut for disabling CSS with the Web Developer extension is Ctrl+Shift+S, probably my most used Firefox shortcut. Of course you can change it to whatever you like. But mainly I'm writing this to note that the popular (and useful) Delicious.com extension overrides the handy Ctrl+Shift+S by default. So if your favorite shortcut doesn't work anymore, this is something to check. Probably applies to managing Firefox extensions and shortcuts in general.

  by Lembit on 2009-04-27 21:53:05

• Thanks a lot! You helped me out.

  by Vitaly on 2009-08-02 10:34:32