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Remote URL in xml-stylesheet?


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Hello All,So, I was following this tutorial (http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_transformation.asp) and things were working very nicely. That is until I changed the link within <?xml-stylesheet> to point to a remote URL.So my simple question is this: is it allowable to use an absolute remote URL as the value of the href?To be clear, when I put this in my XML document, it works as desired:<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="local_file.xsl"?>however, if I put my xsl file on another server (read: different domain), this doesn't work:<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.another-domain.com/remote_file.xsl"?>So are we restricted to our local domain only?Thanks in advance for any/all help... :)

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I'm afarid so. It's the same case with all languages used on the client side (notably JavaScript) with (X)HTML being the big exclusion.

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Argh, that's what I was afraid of. :)I was lead to believe otherwise because w3.org says that the attributes of xml-stylesheet follow that of HTML's <link> attributes.Style Sheets can be associated with an XML[xml10] document by using a processing instruction whose target is xml-stylesheet. This processing instruction follows the behaviour of the HTML 4.0 <LINK REL="stylesheet">With that I assumed that it would be possible. All browsers are client side, when we link an <img src="http://some-remote-site/img.png"> this is allowable and client-side.Oh well, thanks for the quick reply, sorry to hear about this limitation. :)

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