Link not working in IE 9 which was working fine in previous versions

i am opening a XML  document with XSLT file.Internal links were provided in xml document which was working fine in previous versions of IE before 9.

Kindly share if you have any idea about this.

Thanks in advance,

Boopathi..

FYI:i am trying to display the xml file in browser with XSLT stylesheet.

Stylesheet contains the following code for link in XSLT

            <a class="tocItem" target="_blank">
                <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="$leaf/@xlink:href"/></xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:value-of select="$leaf/def:title"/> 
            </a>

in one section and the other section contains the below,

         <a class="tocItem">
               <xsl:attribute name="href">#<xsl:value-of select="@OID"/></xsl:attribute>
               <xsl:value-of select="@OID"/>     
            </a>

Respective code in XML is:

<def:ValueListDef OID="ValueList.EG.EGCAT">
   <ItemRef ItemOID="EG.EGCAT.&lt;no category&gt;" OrderNumber="1" Mandatory="No"/>
   <ItemRef ItemOID="EG.EGCAT.FINDING" OrderNumber="2" Mandatory="No"/>
   <ItemRef ItemOID="EG.EGCAT.INTERVAL" OrderNumber="3" Mandatory="No"/>
   <ItemRef ItemOID="EG.EGCAT.MEASUREMENT" OrderNumber="4" Mandatory="No"/>
</def:ValueListDef>

and other section contains ,

<ItemGroupDef OID="EG"
   Name="EG"
   Repeating="Yes"
   IsReferenceData="No"
   Purpose="Tabulation"
   def:Label="ECG Test Results"
   def:Structure="One record per ECG observation per time point per visit per subject"
   def:DomainKeys="STUDYID, USUBJID, EGDTC, EGCAT, EGTESTCD, EGORRES"
   def:Class="Findings General Observation Class"
   def:ArchiveLocationID="Location.eg">
   <!-- **********************************

All the above where working fine IE 8 but fails in IE 9 and above.

I think above codes gives some clarity.