Subject: RE: Media, charset, title attributes for xsl-stylesheet PI From: "White, David" <David.White@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:47:13 +0200 |
Something I would like is a means of indicating the target media type of the referenced stylesheet; there are good arguments for letting this be the MIME type of the resulting output. Perhaps something like an "output-type" pseudoattribute would do the job. Just my $.02... David White Connect Austria James Clark wrote: > > "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > > > The semantics of the xsl-stylesheet processing instruction > appear to be > > derived from HTML used with CSS. The pseudo-attributes of > that PI are > > `type', `href', `title', `media', `charset', and `alternate'. It's > > clear to me now how `type' and `href' are used with XSLT > stylesheets: > > `type' should have the value ``text/xsl'' > > That hasn't been decided yet. > > > and `href' should point to the > > XSLT stylesheet file. > > > > But what is not clear is what significance if any the rest of the > > pseudo-attributes have or even might have for XSLT. I've played > > around with IE5, which seems to silently ignore them. > It's possible > > that `title' and `alternate' would be used by a user agent > to select a > > stylesheet, I suppose, > > Yes: the user agent can use them to allow a user to select between > multiple stylesheets. > > > but the CSS cascade isn't applicable to XSLT. > > XSLT can blend together multiple stylesheets. The obvious > way to apply > a sequence of XSLT stylesheets A.xsl, B.xsl, C.xsl is to treat it as > equivalent to applying a single stylesheet that imports A.xsl, then > B.xsl, then C.xsl. > > > And given that XSLT is one level removed from its result > namespace, I > > can't see how `media' or `charset' would apply at all. > > charset is not useful for XSLT because XSLT uses the standard > XML way of > specifying the charset of the stylesheet. media allows you have to > specify different stylesheets for different media (ie one > stylesheet for > print and one for screen). > > James > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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