Include CSS and Schema informatione in XML files

[Piet]

Hi there.
I have started to work with CSS. For formatting HTML files, the CSS commands can either be be present in the same HTML file via the style-tag <style type="text/css"> <!-- tagname {}
-->
</style>
or be present in a separate CSS file and be included via <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"> For defining the output of xml files (which is want I want to do preferentially) only the second method (referencing to external CSS file) seems to exist:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" ?> Is it possible to include CSS formating informations directly into the xml file as it is possible with DTD´s ? I haven´t found any hint on doing this so far. Please help! Thanx in advance.
Piet

 

[Eric Sirois]

Hello,

You should use the following to transform your XML using CSS <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" ?>

IE and Netscape will transform the XML document and use the specified stylesheet to display the new document.

Kind regards,
Eric

Piet wrote:

Hi there.
I have started to work with CSS. For formatting HTML files, the CSS commands can either be be present in the same HTML file via the style-tag <style type="text/css"> <!-- tagname {}
-->
</style>
or be present in a separate CSS file and be included via <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"> For defining the output of xml files (which is want I want to do ...

 

[GIMME]

The thing with IE5.51 (And I think IE6) is that link and script tags which include external files must have both a begin and an end tag.

For example :

This doesn't include the css :

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">

While this does :

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"></link>

This makes things problematic for developers.

If a developer tells his XSL transformer to create both begin and end tags in the output, then :

<br/>

In the xslt becomes :

<br></br>

in the XHTML.

That's not a good thing because in IE <br></br> doesn't render the same as either <br> or <br/>. (<br></br> renders with an extra break which makes the resulting XHTML visually unappealing.)

So, personally, I've set up a scheme in my JSPs to write the javascript and link external stuff separately and to have the transform create everything in the body tags.

PS, IE doesn't support textareas in "XHTML", so you occassionally you have use workarounds when you use them. The IE spec actually says that using end tags for textares isn't suppported. And IE does not claim to fully support XHTML.

If you search on google on this group you can find an example using a textarea which fails (the text that should go into the textarea appears outside the textarea).