I've been doing XSL transforms, converting XML to HTML, server side since
2000. In those days, clients which could do the transformation client
side didn't exist, so whether to transform client-side or server-side
wasn't an issue.

Recently I've been overhauling the code in order to pass transform to the
client wherever possible, and I've hit two problems

(i) How do I know whether the client can do transforms? Currently I'm
    only passing the transform to the client if the client sends an
    'Accepts' header which contains either 'application/xml' or
    'text/xml'. However, Internet Explorer 6, which apparently can do
    transforms client side, doesn't send either of these.

(ii) When the transforms transform XML to HTML which includes a link to a
    CSS stylesheet, the visual appearance (in Firefox, anyway) which
    results from a client-side transform is quite different from that
    which results from a server-side transform, and it appears that the
    CSS styling is being applied before the XSL transform is complete.
    How can I ensure that the CSS is applied to the completed page?

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