Does the html <link> tag work with xsl?

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Subject: Does the html <link> tag work with xsl?
From: "Russell Watson" <russell.watson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:17:48 +0200

Hello fellow-xsl-people,

I have a simple question regarding the use of xsl WITH XHTML to which I have
been unable to find the answer, and it is this:

	+-------------------------------------------------+
	| Can I apply an xsl stylesheet to (x)html        |
	| on the client-side *USING THE HTML <LINK> TAG*? |
	+-------------------------------------------------+

For example: In 'somepage.html' (an xhtml document) I can apply (relatively
trivial) formatting using css via the link tag:

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="simpleFormatting.css" />

I wish, however, to apply the full power of xsl (eg: inserting icons next to
headings), but
 - *without* having to rename the file to 'somepage.xml'
 - *without* using the <?xsl:stylesheet...?> processing instruction
 - rather by using the (very neat and conceptually consistent) <link> tag:

	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/xml" href="powerfulFormatting.xsl" />

Moreover, wishing to combine both css and xsl formatting, I would like to
thus format 'somepage.html' through the following header:

	<?xml version="1.1"?>
	<html>
	<head>
		<title>XHTML Page with headings: blue (css) with right-aligned icons
(xsl)</title>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/xml" href="powerfulFormatting.xsl" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="simpleFormatting.css" />
	</head>
	...

In my browser (IE6) this doesn't seem to work. I see there is a question of
mime type (text/xsl vs. text/xml) between different browsers, but   neither
works for me.

This is such a simple approach: ONE system for linking to css for simple
formatting and xsl for structural-formatting. Why isn't it there?

Thanking you all...
Russell Watson


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