Re: importing stylesheets from remote host

the default behaviour is to look for the imported
stylesheets on the host where the transformation
happens (in my case this would be host A). That's not
what i want since all of my stylesheets reside on the
remost host B and I am tryiong to avoid hardcoding
host B within each <xsl:import>.

I don't think this is correct, if xsl:import has a relative
URI, it should be resolved against the URI of the style sheet.
If this was downloaded from another machine, so will be the
imported files.
WIth a JAXP 1.1 compatible processor like Xalan this can
be overridden with an URIResolver. The Apache XML commons
 http://xml.apache.org/commons
(IIRC)
has such a beast working with various sorts of catalogs,
which can take care of DTDs also.