Transform XML to HTML w/ XSLT with CSS included (not linked) 1

[CubeE101]

Is there a way to include the CSS within the target HTML during an XSL transformation?

I know how to do the transformation... I would just like to inject the css code into the generated HTML document...

This started out as an Excel file, which I saved to an HTML file, which created over 60 classes in a CSS section...

I seperated the Style code to a seperate CSS file to unclutter the HTML...

I then Cleaned up the HTML code (man... Excel is messy ;-))

Then I modified the HTML to an XSLT doc

I am then using VB with MSXML DOM to grab node sets from several XML files and place clones of them into a newly created DOMDocument object... Which I am then using the XSLT on to produce an HTML doc...

I realise I can just cut and paste the CSS code back into the XSLT doc, but I would rather keep it seperate if possible...
Otherwise, it will add about 300 lines of crap to the top of the XSLT doc...

 

[flumpy]

... just include the css file as you would in the HTML file..

eg

<xsl:template name="stylesheet" ...>
<LINK href="/buzz/scripts/ems.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</xsl:template>

or,

<xsl:template name="stylesheet" ..>
<style type="text/css"> 
  .petit {
  	font-size: 8pt;	color: #999999;	font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;  	
  }
  </style>
</xsl:template>

Unfortunately you cannot use xsl:import or xsl:include to include the stylesheet straight from the css file; xsl will try to parse the document and fail. However if you did want to put the stylesheet in a separate xsl document and in its own named template you could then import it from the main document like this:

<!-- included xsl template called "csstemplate.xsl"-->
<xsl:template  name="css-style">
<style type="text/css"> 

  .petit {
  	font-size: 8pt;	color: #999999;	font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;  	
  }
  </style>
</xsl:template>

and then import/include it like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
<xsl:import href="./csstemplate.xsl"/>

<!-- rest of xsl script -->

</xsl:stylesheet>

..and then just call the template in the normal way from within the main xsl stylesheet (with <xsl:call-template>).

hope that helps some.

matt

 

[CubeE101]

I didn't think about including the CSS in a second XSL template... that should work nicely to include the CSS for external use...

Also... since I am using vb... I guess I could use a replace function on the output text before saving the file...

...Load CSS File into [b]CSSText[/b]...
...Transform XML with XSL into [b]XSLText[/b]...
[b]XSLText[/b] = Replace([b]XSLText[/b], _
                  "<LINK href='MyCSS.css' rel='stylesheet' />", _
                  "<style type='text/css'>" & [b]CSSText[/b] & "</style>")
...Save [b]XSLText[/b] as HTML file...

If I wanted to continue using the CSS for internal purposes

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