Re: xml newsfeed.

Subject: Re: xml newsfeed.
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:33:56 -0600 (MDT)
Peter Bates wrote:
> for the code to work, i need the line
> 
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="index.xsl" ?>
> 
> inserted before the doctype. However this line is not present in the
> files as I receive them. Is it necessary, in which case i'd have to use
> asp to add in the extra line for each file, or can I do this without the
> line being inserted.

To insert the line, you could do an identity transformation on the input,
as per:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#copying

except when processing the root node, add the processing instruction:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Processing-Instructions

As for whether or not it is necessary, it depends on what you're doing. I
assume you're expecting people to be accessing the XML document directly,
and you want the <?xml-stylesheet ...?> processing instruction to tell
their application what stylesheet is associated with the document. You're
assuming that their application will act on that information, which is
fine if they're using IE5/MSXML.

   - Mike
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