Thanks to everyone who responded to this question, which I posted in late
February.  It took a while for our IT people to have a chance to
investigate, but the response below proved to be the solution to the problem.

Thanks again!

--Lara Friedman~Shedlov

At 11:25 PM 2/26/03 +0000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Quoting Lara Friedman-Shedlov <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Yes, when I use Mozilla 1.2.1 (for Windows) to view the copy of the
>> XML
>> finding aid on my hard drive it works fine, but when I use Mozilla to
>> view
>> the copy on the server, it shows nothing.  I'm not surprised, because
>> Netscape is basically a gussied up version of Mozilla.
>>
>> Still hoping someone out there has an idea why there should be a
>> difference
>> between viewing the copy on the hard drive and the version on the server
>> . . .
>
>I think your Apache web server is serving your stylesheet with content/MIME
>type = text/plain (which is probably the default on the server).
>
>This doesn't seem to bother IE, which I guess just assumes it's an XML doc
and
>a stylesheet and gets on with processing it, but Mozilla seems to want it
to be
>served as text/xml before it recognises it, which requires a change in a
config
>file on the server to tell it to serve files with a .xsl extension as
text/xml.
>
>Pete
>
>

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