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Grant Robertson wrote:

> Can't a browser open a raw XML file and apply the XSL itself?

Yes, but the original question is that someone wants to offer several
different stylesheet for an XML document. To that question I did reply
that the xml-stylesheet processsing instruction in theory allows that
but that browsers in pratice do not support that. You seem to have
missed that original problem.


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In article <45bb4bea$0$18842$>,
says...
> You seem to have
> missed that original problem.
>
>
Nah. I hyjacked the thread again. Sometimes the answers to the original
question peaks my interest about something related. I did preface my
question with "Curiosity Question:". I guess I should have changed the
subject line as well. Would people here prefer that I start an entirely
new thread also? In most of usenet people have gotten so lax that I often
don't go to the full effort of full netiquette any more.

On 2007-01-27, Andrzej Adam Filip <> wrote:
> Martin Honnen <> writes:
>
>> Toby Newman wrote:
>>
>>> If the following line, which dictates which XSL file should be
>>> used to transform my XML document for me, is found *in the XML file
>>> itself* then how can you use more than one XSL to present multiple views
>>> of the same XML document?
>>>
>>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myXSL.xsl"?>
>>
>> The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is modelled after the HTML
>> link element so it should allow you (in theory) to have several such
>> processing instructions to suggest alternative stylesheets.
>> However in reality for XSLT stylesheet I don't think any of the major
>> desktop browsers like IE 6 and later, Mozilla/Firefox or Opera support
>> that.
>> On the other hand such a processing instruction does not prevent you
>> to use script and an XSLT processor API on the server to apply
>> different stylesheet as you like or want.
>
> In some cases using trivial xml file for tying xsl and xml may help.
>
><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myXSL.xsl"?>
><xml-file href="myXML.xml" />
>
> It will require your myXSL.xsl style-sheet to process myXML.xml file when
> processing xml-file.

I'm a little unsure what you mean. Is this something I could do without
server-side scripting?


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Toby Newman <> writes:

> On 2007-01-27, Andrzej Adam Filip <> wrote:
>> Martin Honnen <> writes:
>>
>>> Toby Newman wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the following line, which dictates which XSL file should be
>>>> used to transform my XML document for me, is found *in the XML file
>>>> itself* then how can you use more than one XSL to present multiple views
>>>> of the same XML document?
>>>>
>>>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myXSL.xsl"?>
>>>
>>> The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is modelled after the HTML
>>> link element so it should allow you (in theory) to have several such
>>> processing instructions to suggest alternative stylesheets.
>>> However in reality for XSLT stylesheet I don't think any of the major
>>> desktop browsers like IE 6 and later, Mozilla/Firefox or Opera support
>>> that.
>>> On the other hand such a processing instruction does not prevent you
>>> to use script and an XSLT processor API on the server to apply
>>> different stylesheet as you like or want.
>>
>> In some cases using trivial xml file for tying xsl and xml may help.
>>
>><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myXSL.xsl"?>
>><xml-file href="myXML.xml" />
>>
>> It will require your myXSL.xsl style-sheet to process myXML.xml file when
>> processing xml-file.
>
> I'm a little unsure what you mean. Is this something I could do without
> server-side scripting?

xsl script/file can "parse" additional xml files except xml file with
xml-stylesheet so you can "reference" in your xml file additional xml
files for processing by your xsl using document function.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#document
<quote>
12.1 Multiple Source Documents
Function: node-set document(object, node-set?)
The document function allows access to XML documents other than the
main source document.
</quote>

WARNING: I have not test how it is supported by "main browsers".

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