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This is a W3C Working Draft for review by W3C members and other interested parties. While we do not anticipate substantial changes to the mechanism described in this document, we still caution that further changes are possible and therefore we recommend that only experimental software or software that can be easily field-upgraded be implemented to this specification at this time. We also plan in a future specification to provide additional mechanisms for associating stylesheets with XML documents.
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This document allows a stylesheet to be associated with an XML
document by including one or more processing instructions with a
target of xml-stylesheet in the document's prolog.
xml-stylesheet processing
instructionxml-stylesheet processing
instructionStylesheets can be associated with an XML[XML10] document by using a processing instruction whose
target is xml-stylesheet. This processing instruction
follows the behaviour of the HTML 4.0 <LINK
REL="stylesheet">[HTML40].
The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is parsed
in the same way as a start-tag, with the exception that entities
other than predefined entities must not be referenced.
The following grammar is given using the same notation as the grammar in the XML Recommendation[XML10]. Symbols in the grammar that are not defined here are defined in the XML Recommendation.
xml-stylesheet processing instruction| [1] | StylesheetPI | ::= | '<?xml-stylesheet' (S PseudoAtt)* S '?>' | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [2] | PseudoAtt | ::= | Name S '=' S PseudoAttValue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [3] | PseudoAttValue | ::= | '"' ([^"<&] | CharRef | PredefEntityRef)* '"' | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | "'" ([^'<&] | CharRef | PredefEntityRef)* "'" | ||||
| [4] | PredefEntityRef | ::= | '&' | '<' | '>' | '"' | ''' | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is
allowed anywhere in the prolog of an XML document. The syntax of
XML constrains where processing instructions are allowed in the
prolog; the xml-stylesheet processing instruction is
subject to these constraints in the same way as any other
processing instruction.
The following pseudo attributes are defined
href CDATA #REQUIRED type CDATA #REQUIRED title CDATA #IMPLIED media CDATA #IMPLIED charset CDATA #IMPLIED alternate (yes|no) "no"
The semantics of the pseudo-attributes are exactly as with
<LINK REL="stylesheet"> in HTML 4.0, with the
exception of the alternate pseudo-attribute. If
alternate="yes" is specified, then the processing
instruction has the semantics of <LINK REL="alternate
stylesheet"> instead of <LINK
REL="stylesheet">.
HTTP[RFC2068] allows stylesheets to be
associated with XML documents by means of the Link
header. Any links specified by HTTP Link headers are
considered to occur before the links specified by the
xml-stylesheet processing instructions. This is the same as
in HTML 4.0.
Here are some examples from HTML 4.0 with the corresponding processing instruction:
<LINK href="mystyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" type="text/css"?> <LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" type="text/css"?> <LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Medium" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css"> <?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" href="mystyle.css" title="Medium" type="text/css"?>
Multiple xml-stylesheet processing instructions are
also allowed with exactly the same semantics as with LINK
REL="stylesheet". For example,
<LINK rel="alternate stylesheet" title="compact" href="small-base.css" type="text/css"> <LINK rel="alternate stylesheet" title="compact" href="small-extras.css" type="text/css"> <LINK rel="alternate stylesheet" title="big print" href="bigprint.css" type="text/css"> <LINK rel="stylesheet" href="common.css" type="text/css">
would be equivalent to:
<?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" title="compact" href="small-base.css" type="text/css"?> <?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" title="compact" href="small-extras.css" type="text/css"?> <?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" title="big print" href="bigprint.css" type="text/css"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="common.css" type="text/css"?>