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[xsl] text/xsl (was Re: Hello World)

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J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Joerg Heinicke wrote:
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
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> Technically, this is illegal, as there is no MIME type
> text/xsl.

Correct.

> Well, last time I looked there was none.
> Should be text/xml.

No it shouldn't.

> application/xml might work too (untested).

Unlikely.

The correct type is application/xslt+xml, per RFC 3023. It should be used
everywhere.

The only type you can effectively use in an xml-stylesheet processing 
instruction at this time, however, is text/xsl, because that's all that
the browsers will recognize, AFAIK.

We will never be rid of text/xsl, unfortunately. If IE started supporting the
correct type in their next release, we might finally start to see text/xsl
fade in about 3 years, when people stop worrying about keeping their stuff
working in the older browsers.

Of course, the whole notion of hard-coding a stylesheet reference in an XML
document is a source of controversy. It is almost exclusively used to let a
browser load a data source directly through a standard HTTP GET and to force a
particular rendering of that data. This is a problem that could have been, and 
has been, solved in other, arguably more intelligent ways.

   - Mike
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