- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:00:58 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday 11 February 2006 21:50, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > * Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >>> <?xml-stylesheet href="#xxx" type="text/css"?> > >> > >> Are you aware of any UAs implementing this? I'm not, nor do I see > >> how any could exist given that the Note in question (not a Rec, > >> btw) is so badly underspecified. > > > > "W3C Recommendation 29 June 1999"? > > I'm talking about <http://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML#Embedded>. I > assume you're talking about <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/>? > In which case you're right that it's a Rec, but it's just as > underspecified. Please see > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193924 and > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61675 for some > discussion on that. ;) When I originally wrote that text[1], now about six years ago, I still thought the problems were minor and there would soon be a consensus on how embedded style sheets were supposed to work. About two years ago, the CSS WG noticed that there were still no implementations and therefore asked the XML Core WG if they could add something to the spec[2], either to define it better or to say that fragments weren't allowed. Since then, the question has made its round through various groups in W3C that each couldn't solve the problem but succeeded in finding more issues. So the current situation is still that there is no spec and you can't expect fragment identifiers to work, except in the special case of an XSL style sheet embedded in an XML document. Any other kind of style sheet embedded in any other kind of document is unlikely to work and may some day even be forbidden. I've updated the text[1] with an overview of the unsolved problems. [1] http://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML#Embedded [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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