RE: imbedding xsl stylesheet within xml doc ???

Thanks for the response !!!

>>I'm not sure how widely supported this feature is, or how widely used

Heck Why not It seems to me that most style sheets by their very nature
are going to be "specific"

>>where the stylesheet is completely specific to that document; in  this
case I find it eases maintenance to keep the
>>stylesheet embedded within the document

Hey, I wonder if this same technique could be used to imbed the
schema for an xml doc within the doc itself ?????

NOTE:A stylesheet that is embedded in the document to which it is to be
applied or that may be included or imported into an stylesheet that is
so embedded typically needs to contain a template rule that specifies
that xsl:stylesheet elements are to be ignored.

How do you write the template rule to ignore the "xsl:stylesheet
element" ???

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:43 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  imbedding xsl stylesheet within xml doc ???

I don't think the XSLT 1.0 spec uses either of the terms "imbed" or
"processor statement" so I'm not sure why you put them in quotes.

But section 2.7 of the spec does discuss how a stylesheet may be
embedded in a source document, and gives an example:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Embedding-Stylesheets

I'm not sure how widely supported this feature is, or how widely used.
It works in Saxon, and I've got one situation where I use it myself: a
one-off document with its own stylesheet, where the stylesheet is
completely specific to that document; in  this case I find it eases
maintenance to keep the stylesheet embedded within the document. (And it
gives me a test case, of course!).

Michael Kay
www.saxonica.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bovy, Stephen J [mailto:STEPHEN.Bovy@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 September 2004 21:12
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  imbedding xsl stylesheet within xml doc ???
>
> The xsl spec states that the xml-stylesheet processing instruction can

> use an href that uses a relative url fragment.  It also tantalizingly
> imples that this method can be used to "imbed" a sytle sheet within
> the "processor statement" itself, (which seems quite bizarre).
>
> Can anyone explain to me or show me how to use this technique ???