Standard stylesheet references
To ensure interoperability between all applications that can detect a reference to a stylesheet from within an XML document, a standard mechanism has been devised by the W3C. Version 1.0 of the 'Associating Style Sheets with XML documents' standard was released in June 1999, and can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet.
This approach uses a processing instruction with the target name 'xml-stylesheet'. This processing instruction must occur before the root element:
<?xml-stylesheet ... ?>
Name and type
A number of parameters can be included, and each one resembles the format of an attribute appearing in a start-tag. The 'attribute' names, and the values each may take, are the same as those defined in ...
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