Associating DSSSL style sheets with documents

[Norbert H. Mikula]

Jon Bosak wrote:
> One possible method suggested by James Clark (thank you, James) is to
> adopt the convention used by Jade in the absence of the -d option:
> replace the extension of the document entity's URL or file name with
> .dsl and fetch that.  Thus, if a browser fetches
> 
>    http://docs.sun.com/foo/bar.html
> 
> then it should also look for
> 
>    http://docs.sun.com/foo/bar.dsl
> 
> and apply it to bar.html if found.

That is the way I have been doing it with my Cappuccino/Yade/PSC_EDB
system.

My NXP/Yade/PSC_EDB system, at least for now, will also do it like this. 

If you have only a few document instances it works fine. If you have
hundrets
of them you probably will get into troubles (for the reason already
pointed out by others)

> James lists some other possibilities:
> 
> | - a processing instruction somewhere in the prolog

I think, at least for XML, we don't want to use PIs too often.

> | - a catalog entry that says unconditionally to use some DSSSL style
> |   sheet

Maybe as a fallbak if other asscociation mechanisms failed....

> | - a catalog entry that associates a DSSSL style sheet with the public
> |   identifier of a DTD

Hmm, I think I would like that. 

> | - make the document serve also as a style sheet by making it conform
> |   to the DSSSL architecture (this will work with Jade too)

Do I understand correct that you want to include the style into the
actual document instance ? Would work of course, but I guess only
if we assume that DSSSL is the only style-spec. mechanism.
Of course I would support that ;-) No, to be serious, I think
we should separate style and instance as much as we can.

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I do also think the idea with the mime header is worth a try. 

-- 
Best regards,
Norbert H. Mikula

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