The file needs a namespace to be defined in the html tag to display correctly:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
This file is a case in point.
But this stil doesnt work in IE???
kml files saved from Google Earth have the default namespace set appropriately:
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
e.g. UWE campuses
However this isnt enough to cause a browser to open the file with GoogleEarth ( ?? )
One approach is to explicitly set the MIME type explicitly via an XQuery script which defines
the type in the serialisation parameters:
declare option exist:serialize "method=xhtml media-type=application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml";
The script merely copies the kml document:
doc('/db/advice/BristolPlaces.kml')
UWE Bristol