An XSLT style sheet provides a template that can be reused for multiple pages of a site. Using XSLT style sheets for the common elements (the "look and feel") of a web site can improve web page load times, since the templates can be cached by most browsers.
An XSLT style sheet can be applied to a web page by including a link tag with a
MIME
type specification of "application/xslt+xml". For backward compatibility with older browsers, it's probably a good idea to include a reference to the primary style sheet in a stylesheet processing instruction with the
MIME
type text/xsl.
Here is an example of an HTML page using both an XSLT style sheet and CSS:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/site-template.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="application/xslt+xml" href="/styles/print.xsl" media="print"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="application/xslt+xml" href="/styles/handheld.xsl" media="handheld"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="application/xslt+xml" href="/styles/screen.xsl" media="screen"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/styles/print.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="handheld" href="/styles/handheld.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/styles/screen.css"/>
<title>Example Only</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample HTML 5 Web Page with Style Sheets</h1>
<p>This is the content of the page. The appropriate CSS styles will be applied</p>
The styles from the appropriate .css file will be applied to various elements on the page and
the "look and feel" in the templates in the appropriate .xsl file will be wrapped around it.
</p>
</body>
</html>
The style sheets are ordered from lowest priority to highest (print, handheld, screen) just in case the browser ignores the media attribute of the link tag.
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