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Re: text/xsl (was Re: Hello World)
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:09:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: [xsl] text/xsl (was Re: Hello World)
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It'd be awfully useful to let a user select a stylesheet, either one
delivered to them or one of their own. Some old-timers may remember the
Panorama SGML browser, that allowed you to switch between various styled
views. Way nifty, and it had any number of real-world applications.
Mozilla, say, ought to be able to load a menu option under the View menu
with choices of stylesheets.
Right now the only techniques I know of to get this behavior is to go
through MS-proprietary scripting or do it all server side. There appears to
be no standard for doing it in a non-proprietary way on the client. But
it's a pretty core infrastructure requirement. I suppose the good wizards
could invent one. Could use RDDL or some such I suppose.
Mike, could you offer a brief synopsis of other ways?
Cheers,
Wendell
At 07:33 PM 6/19/2002, Mike wrote:
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.
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