Re: stylesheet expansion

On 11/12/2007, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  As a middle road perhaps we could borrow from java and create .xar
> > files (um.. "zarr"?) with manifests that indicate the primary
> > stylesheet?
>
> or couldn't you just use jar, saxon at least supports the (somewhat
> dubiously specified) jar: URI scheme so you should be able to dump all
> the various stylesheet modules into a single jar file for delivery and
> be able to use them without unpacking as
> <xsl:import href="jar:module1/stylesheet666.xsl"/>
> shouldn't you?

For the archives, this does seem to work although I could only get it
going with an absolute path:

"jar:file:///c:/path/to/dist.zip!/imported.xslt"

I guess the 1 in your example was meant to be an exclamation mark :)
plus an interesting stylesheet name there...



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