"John Smith" <john.smith@m...> wrote in message 
news:QA2Xg.59$Ib3.45706@n......
>
>> Not sure if that was the rationale but the use cases do seem rather thin 
>> on
>> the ground, if you can provide any then perhaps it will be considered.
>
> Yes, I can provide a very good one: digital signature. When signing XML 
> files, it is essential to sign presentation content (XSLT), too (not only 
> its location).
>
> I don't understand why IE doesn't support embedded stylesheets although it 
> is part of W3C recommendation. Firefox has implemented it.
Fair enough, I don't understand completely as to why you need embedded 
stylesheets though but I have little experience with this topic.
I don't think IE 7 supports though I'm going to check. You have to remember 
that IE still uses msxml 3 which came out  along time before Firefox 
although I don't see why it wasn't added to later versions as all the 
technology seems to be present. It's even possible to construct script which 
manages to process XML with embedded XSLT.

Personally I'd rather have IE's support for the node-set function which 
Firefox doe not support.


-- 

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name