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steven matthewsSubject: CSS within XSLT ?
Author: steven matthews
Date: 27 Dec 2006 09:44 AM
HI Team,

I know that XSLT and CSS are often viewed as competing technologies but what I would like to know is whether it is possible to state CSS styling preferences within an XSLT stylesheet, as the example source code below tries to do.

The problem that I have is that I have static web pages styled with CSS, but I wish to create dynamic XML from a database dump which needs styling with XSLT (creating DHTML) using the same styles found in static web pages (under CSS control). Up to this point, I get around the problem by simply using those same styles in the XSLT style sheet.
Problem is, I have to repeat this for each XSLT style sheet used.

Could I create a generic XSLT style sheet ?

Any advice would be appreciated,

Steven M


SOURCE ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/SERVICES">
<html>
<body bgcolor="#F5DF91">

<head>
<title>Student Services Home Page</title>
<link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "styles.css" />
</head>

</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Minollo I.Subject: CSS within XSLT ?
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 27 Dec 2006 09:58 AM
Only if you don't know what CSS or XSLT are you could consider them two competing technologies; CSS is about defining and using styles in your HTML pages; XSLT is about transforming XML into something else, often HTML or other XML.

You can surely create an XSLT that creates an HTML that includes and relies on a specific CSS file; you can also think about defining a shared one taking care of the CSS inclusion, then importing it in other XSLT stylesheets.
 
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