RE: [xsl] imbedding xsl stylesheet within xml doc ???

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

The big question is do the major browsers support it (ie 6) Mozilla
Opera KDE ect...

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