Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation

Problem

You want to package XML data, as well as a stylesheet for converting it to HTML, into a single file.

Solution

This recipe assumes you have a browser that supports client-side XSLT transformations (IE 6.0, IE 5.x + MSXML 3.0, Netscape Navigator 6.0, etc.): 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   
<?xml-stylesheet type="application/xml" href="selfcontained.xsl"?>
   
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:pf="http://www.ora.com/XSLTCookbook/namespaces/portfolio">
   
<portfolio xmlns="http://www.ora.com/XSLTCookbook/namespaces/portfolio">
  <investment>
    <symbol>IBM</symbol>
    <current>72.70</current>
    <paid>65.00</paid>
    <qty>1000</qty>
  </investment>
  <investment>
    <symbol>JMAR</symbol>
    <current>1.90</current>
    <paid>5.10</paid>
    <qty>5000</qty>
  </investment>
  <investment>
    <symbol>DELL</symbol>
    <current>24.50</current>
    <paid>18.00</paid>
    <qty>100000</qty>
  </investment>
  <investment>
    <symbol>P</symbol>
    <current>57.33</current>
    <paid>63</paid>
    <qty>100</qty>
  </investment>
</portfolio>
     
<xsl:output method="html" />
   
  <xsl:attribute-set name="gain-loss-font">
    <xsl:attribute name="color">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="(pf:current - pf:paid) * pf:qty >= 0">black</xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>red</xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:attribute-set>      
   
<xsl:template match="xsl:stylesheet">
               <xsl:apply-templates select="pf:portfolio"/>
               </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="pf:portfolio"> <html> <head> <title>My ...

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