RE: ALWAYS assignment of XSL stylesheets to XML file

> Instead most of the tutorials link the XSLT stylesheet at 
> first into the XML document:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="....">
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="D:\test\myxslt.xsl"?> 
> <TOPTAG> ...
> </TOPTAG>
> 
> Is there a reason for this ?

It's because the simplest way of running a transformation is to open an XML
file containing such a processing instruction in an XSLT-aware browser. This
means the tutorials can concentrate on teaching you how to write XSLT,
rather than teaching you how to run it in a more realistic production
environment.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/