"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> me wrote:
>> Is it possible to view xml/xsl files on a standalone PC (ie one with no 
>> internet connectivity)?
>>
>> Specifically,
>>     my xml file references my xsl file, and
>>     my xsl file contains the standard xsl stylesheet tag :-
>>         <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>>           xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>>
>> The absence of internet connectivity causes this access to http:// to 
>> give an error.
>
> No, xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" is simply a namespace 
> declaration, the XML parser will not try to access that URL at all.
>
> On the other hand, if you have e.g.
>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://example.com/sheet.xsl"?>
>
> then that stylesheet could be fetched from http://example.com/.
>
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>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
As an addition to Martin's comments if you use relative references/URLs for 
your linked XSLT, e.g.: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" 
href="example.com/sheet.xsl"?>
then your XSLT just needs to be in the same folder as the XML and you can 
open the XML locally by double-clicking it.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name