Is there a way to have the style sheet included in the sqame file as the XML data

[RD]

My app transmits XML data file via e-mail and for now I attach both the XML
data file and the corresponding style sheet. I found however that whenthe
recipient double clicks on the XML file to read it, he/she can't open it
that way. For some reason that escapes me, the XSL fil can't be found,
although theoretically they bot are in the same folder. If user copies both
XML and XSL files to another same folder for both, then he/she can read XML
by double clicking on it and it finds its XSL OK.

Which behavioiur brings me to me question above. Is there a way to directly
embed the XSL in the XML file itself. I want to send tye data as XML to make
it easy for the recipient to devellop a method to import it in hois own
database and it needs to be as user friendly as possible when it commes to
viewing from the e-mail message, but the behaviour above makes it a bit hard
for recipient.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

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[Martin Honnen]

RD wrote:

Is there a way to directly
embed the XSL in the XML file itself.

In theory you can do that, yes

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="#theSheet"?>
<root>
<xsl:stylesheet id="theSheet"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
</xsl:stylesheet>
</root>

though to have that work you need to include a DTD that defines the id
attribute of the xsl:stylesheet element.

Details are here:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Embedding-Stylesheets>

But as far as I remember MSXML used by IE doesn't support that.

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[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

Hello RD,

Instead of passing the XSL, why not just send the XML and also send an HTML
that is the result of applying the XSL to the XML. that way, the user does
not need to know anything about stylesheets, and the XML simply arrives as
an attachment like so many others they probably get.
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My app transmits XML data file via e-mail and for now I attach both the XML data file and the corresponding style sheet. I found however that whenthe
recipient double clicks on the XML file to read it, he/she can't open it
that way. For some reason that escapes me, the XSL fil can't be found,
although theoretically they bot are in the same folder. If user copies both XML and XSL files to another same folder for both, then he/she can read XML by double clicking on it and it finds its XSL OK.

Which behavioiur brings me to me question above. Is there a way to directly embed the XSL in the XML file itself. I want to send tye data as XML to make it easy for the recipient to devellop a method to import it in hois own
database and it needs to be as user friendly as possible when it commes to
viewing from the e-mail message, but the behaviour above makes it a bit hard for recipient.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

Hope you all had a pleasant Christmas.

[boneoh]

I have a similar need. My users need the XML data for later import into
ACCESS or EXCEL. The need to be able to click on the attachment to see it,
and save it later.

I've gotten it to work, but have run into a formatting issue in the xsl
itself. Any input is appreciated.

Here are the original xml and xsl, which works fine.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test2.xsl"?>
<test>
<row>
<item>test item 1 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 2 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 3 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 4 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 5 </item>
</row>
</test>

Here is the original xsl:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:key name="kItem" match="row" use="item" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
.HEADER { background-color:lightblue;font-weight:bold }
.ITEMROW { background-color:beige;font-weight:bold }
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<COLGROUP WIDTH="200" ALIGN="LEFT" />
<TR>
<TD CLASS="HEADER">Item</TD>
</TR>
<xsl:for-each
select="test/row[generate-id()=generate-id(key('kItem',item))]">
<COLGROUP WIDTH="200" ALIGN="LEFT" />
<TR>
<TD CLASS="ITEMROW">
<xsl:value-of select="item" />
</TD>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The above all works fine. When I combine the XML and XSL into a single file,
apparently the xsl:for-each does not work.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="#stylesheet"?>
<!DOCTYPE doc [
<!ATTLIST xsl:stylesheet
id ID #REQUIRED>
]>
<doc>
<xsl:stylesheet id="stylesheet" version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:key name="kItem" match="test/row" use="item" />
<xsl:template match="xsl:stylesheet" />
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
.HEADER { background-color:lightblue;font-weight:bold }
.ITEMROW { background-color:beige;font-weight:bold }
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<COLGROUP WIDTH="200" ALIGN="LEFT" />
<TR>
<TD CLASS="HEADER">Item</TD>
</TR>
<xsl:for-each
select="test/row[generate-id()=generate-id(key('kItem',item))]">
<COLGROUP WIDTH="200" ALIGN="LEFT" />
<TR>
<TD CLASS="ITEMROW" >
<xsl:value-of select="item" />
</TD>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:stylesheet>
<test>
<row>
<item>test item 1 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 2 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 3 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 4 </item>
</row>
<row>
<item>test item 5 </item>
</row>
</test>
</doc>

Thanks in advance to all the gurus out there.