Re: [xsl] XSL - Transforming 2 XSL stylesheets from 1 XML file

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Blame the spec, not the implementations, it was a bad idea from start
> (it is possible that JC couldn't see into the future and misjudged
> some things). 

The xml-stylesheet spec is just an xml-isation of the HTML link element.

There wasn't really any flexibility in the possible semantics of values
of the media type etc.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="print">
means the same thing as
<?xml-stylesheet  href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="print"?>

It's not really clear that it was (or even is) a bad idea, although the
actual version that got specified  is rather inflexible. Sending XML
over the wire to be styled by a client side stylesheet is of course the
number one reason for developing XML (or SGML-online as it was once
called) 

David

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