Associating stylesheets with XML, and text/xml-xsl (was RE: XSL E xamples..)

[Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joy Daniel wrote:
> How do I now prepare the valid 
> XML document (based on the valid DTD that I have created)
> to be displayed using the XSL that I would prepare? In
> other words, what are the tags that I should add in the XSL
> or the XML document that would indicate that the tags from
> this particular XML document (say x.xml) are to be
> formatted using the XSL style sheet (y.xsl)?

This is the subject of a very brief W3C Recommendation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/

And the IE5 implementation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/xslguide/browsing-xsl.asp

Please take note that IE5 currently implements only part of the December
Working Draft of XSL, and that the syntax and features of the current
Working Drafts (XSL, XSLT, XPath) have changed *significantly* since the IE5
implementation was developed. Microsoft is waiting for the specs to reach
Recommendation status before updating their XSL processing engine.

Also, the use of "text/xsl" as recommended in the msdn link above is only
appropriate if you have the text/xsl media type registered in your operating
system (which happens if you install IE5, or certain other XSL-aware
applications). If a recent IETF Internet Draft,
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murata-xml-00.txt, is to be taken
seriously, the correct type will be "text/xml-xsl" or "application/xml-xsl"
depending on how the document is intended to be handled.


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