When you say "what it was designed for" can you be specific as to what that definition is? Sorry, new to the conversation, but I have particular interest in this topic as it is my belief that the URI/IRI can be used to imply a lot of information that is otherwise hidden from view, or uses more complex mechanisms to achieve the same result. If there is real concern as to this approach, it would be great to gain a greater understanding as what they are such that I can apply this to the work I am doing in this area.
For a particular example of what I mean, please see this post > http://www.xsltblog.com/archives/2006/02/what_rest_gets_1.html <
Thanks in advance!
On 2/27/06, Antone Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 26, 2006, at 9:10 PM, James Yenne wrote:
> My feeds contain a generic xml-stylesheet, which formats the feed
> for display along with a feed-specific css. Since xsl processors
> do not have a standard way to pass parameters to xsl stylesheets, I
> provide this feed-specific css to the xsl processor in the feed as
> a link with rel="stylesheet". Generating xhtml with this xsl/css
> solution works for rendering both in IE6 and FF1.5. (Why does IE7
> rip out xml-stylesheet directives?)
>
> A link rel="stylesheet" seems to be the most efficient solution,
> however, a fully qualified URI relation does the job too. I would
> like to request a stylesheet link relation be added to the IANA
> List of Relations and supported in the validators. Thoughts?
One problem with this is that there's no machine readable way without
an extension attribute to indicate what format the stylesheet is
going to transform the data to. If you're going to add an extension
attribute, I'd suggest just making the whole thing an extension
element instead.
Of course, my opinion is partly based on my preference which was
rejected by the group for limiting the link element to links intended
for traversal, so maybe that doesn't matter. But certainly the
possibility should be considered that this is stretching the use of
the link element beyond what it was designed for.
Antone
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