Jon <j.trauntvein@c...> wrote in
<86a7c136-b75b-4ebb-aa97-a7e21aa46fd5@1...>:
> I have experimented in the past with the <?xml-stylesheet
> ...?> processing instruction with mixed success between
> different browsers but my principle object to it is that
> it has to be embedded in the prologue XML document itself. 

> What I would like to be able to do is to control the style
> sheet applied to an XML document as the browser follows
> the link to that document from an HTML document.

Transform server-side and serve the results. That way you
have full control over the transformation you're using on
your source document, and can even parametrise the
transformation using the feedback from the client. This was
discussed recently in the thread 'Pushing multiple xml
through a xsl file to generate a single html page'.

> I have looked at the syntax for the <a> and <link> HTML
> tags and am not certain regarding this capability.  Can
> anyone confirm whether this is possible?

It's not.

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