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 Joshua Allen wrote: >>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform >>namespace. This is about two years too late, but >> > >As opposed to Netscape, which still does not ship with XSLT support, and >even the Mozilla tool (last time I checked) which does allow XSLT to be >used does *not* support any form of CSS? At least IE has been capable > Actually, Netscape 6.1 does ship with XSLT support. There are some quirks, but I believe these are pointed out in the release notes. Embedded CSS is not supported in the document generated by XSLT processing, but the workaround is to use external stylesheets. I am pretty sure Netscape 6.1 has better support for CSS than any other browser out there. >>Microsoft still labors under the illusion that there >>is a MIME media type text/xsl. IE does not recognize >>the actual MIME types text/xml and >>application/xml+xslt as identifying XSL stylesheets. >> > >As http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xsl-editors/1999JulSep/0016.html >shows, this was in the spec not long before it was released. People >needed *some* way to associate a transform with an XML document, and >this was the best we could do at that time. In fact, it is the best >that anyone has ever done, as far as I can tell. Again, last I checked >the only other browser that even supported this (the unsupported plugin >for Mozilla), was quite happy to accept text/xsl as well. I have > One of the reason text/xsl is supported in Mozilla and NS 6.1 is because that is what works with Microsoft products I believe support for the other mime types is going to be added soon but is not yet in Mozilla or NS 6.1. -- Heikki Toivonen 
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