Re: [xslt] import - platform independence

[Brent Hendricks <brentmh ece rice edu>]

Keith Isdale wrote:
> Have you thought of putting this "common" work on a webserver or in the 
> public section area of your machine. Though you might want to ensure 
> that only, you, have write access :-)
> 
> <xsl:import 
> href="http://my_server/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/html/docbook.x
> sl" />
>    or
> <xsl:import 
> href="//my_server/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/html/docbook.xsl" /
> 
> 
> I've not tried this myself but I think it should work :)

I've used this in multiple places, and I can confirm that it does indeed 
work.  Then if want to improve efficiency on a given machine, you can 
use an XML catalog to re-point the URL to a local file.  This lets you 
use canonical URLs for your stylesheets/dtds, but still have the 
efficiency of loading the file locally.  Very nice.

-- Brent

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