Re: Associating DSSSL style sheets with documents

Norbert H. Mikula (nmikula@edu.uni-klu.ac.at)
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:01:04 -0800

Jon Bosak wrote:
> | > <?XML-stylesheet type="text/dsssl" href="foo.dsl"?>
> |
> | I think that's ok, but it also creates a pain in
> | my stomache. Does it it mean I have to fetch the stylessheet
> | each time for each document instance ?
>
> I was assuming (naively?) that the target of the href would be cached
> just like the target of any other URL.

I think my suggestion with the (formal) public identifier is
more general. Your suggestion would work of course, but
if we have two URLs, for instance, http://www.jon.com/foo.dsl and
http://www.norbert.com/foo.dsl, they could be the same
stylesheet but they don't *have* to be.

Also extracting the stylesheet name as such wouldn't be the
best solution (foo.dsl) as there also might be ambiguities.
Your foo.dsl is not necessarily my foo.dsl.

However, if I cache "-//NHM//FOO STYLE//EN", then especially with
formal public idents, I (normally) wouldn't have these problems.

Right ?

-- 
Best regards,
Norbert H. Mikula


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