I've been building an XML based website. I've got a nice working
environment for the screen. I have the following association:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="scripts/slideshow-tables.xslt" media="screen"?>
This produces a slide show and a bunch of navigation features. I want
to make a corresponding "for print" stylesheet. I added this:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="scripts/slideshow-tables.xslt" media="screen"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="scripts/slideshow-print.xslt"
media="print"?>
My screen presentation switched to the print style - which I didn't
want. Looks like the last stylesheet read is what is used. I made the
next change:
<?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" type="text/xsl"
href="scripts/slideshow-print.xslt" media="print"?>
The alternate='yes' seems to have at least kept my original
stylesheet being read for the screen. I'm not sure if the
media='screen' has anything to do with it. The media='print'
certainly is not producing the result I want. When I do a print
preview with FireFox, I don't get my new print arrangement.
FYI results seem to be the same in IE as well.
The xml-stylesheet spec indicates that this is supposed to work like
the <link> tag for CSS, so I thought this would work. I need more
support than what CSS will allow and I want to write a second XSLT
stylesheet to handle the different formatting. The biggest thing I
need to do is convert my slideshow from Javascript arrays and a
Javascript player to be in line <img> references. That's the reason I
want XSLT instead of CSS for this task.
Any suggestions how I can handle this with XSLT/XML/HTML techniques?
I would like the stylesheet to be automatically triggered when
someone hits the print button. My only other thought is to add a
button on the webpage that will trigger some Javascript to process
the XML content with a different stylesheet and then pop that up as a
new window. Anyone got some example code that would call an XML file
and apply a stylesheet?
..dan
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