[Xsltforms-support] has there been a recent change in CSS support in XSLTForms?

[C. M. Sperberg-M. <cm...@bl...>]

The other day I asked about possible changes in the way XSLTForms
deals with external CSS documents.  

Mindful of Alain's recent comment that it's always easier to deal with 
questions if there are small test cases, I've generated a set of small 
sample documents which differ in using different versions of XSLTForms 
(beta3RC, beta3, 1.0RC, or rev549) and in embedding different external 
stylesheets (test.css, which turns the background light green, or 
test.css.xml, which is wrapped in an XML element and which turns the 
background light blue).

The test.css.xml stylesheet, that is, follows the convention described
in the XRX wikibook at [1]; the test.css is just a normal CSS file.

XSLTForms versions beta3, beta3RC, and 1.0RC all behave the
same way the browser behaves if XSLTForms is not involved at all:
the test.css stylesheet is consulted and turns the background green,
and the test.css.xml stylesheet has no effect.  (This surprises me,
because it contradicts what I thought I remembered; I thought that
at least one of the older releases worked with either convention.)

Rev. 549, by contrast, successfully consults test.css.xml, but
does not successfully consult test.css.

For now, I think I can get the effect I want.  But I do wonder:  is this
change of behavior intended, or a bug?

The test files I have generated are visible at

  http://blackmesatech.com/2012/07/testcase/

I have checked the results with reasonably current versions of 
Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome running under Mac OS X.

Michael Sperberg-McQueen

[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XRX/XSLTForms_and_eXist#Modifying_your_CSS_to_work_with_XSLTForms
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