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IE Conditional comments in XSLT

Conditional comments are a useful way to avoid risky CSS hacks. Generating them in XSLT is a bit tricky, but possible. Tested with libxsl and Xalan.

XSLT:


<xsl:comment><![CDATA[[if !IE]><!]]></xsl:comment>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
   <xsl:comment>
      @import url("style/Moz.main.css");      /* level 1 */
      @import url("style/Moz.window.css");    /* level 2 */
      @import url("style/Moz.document.css");  /* level 3 */
   </xsl:comment>
</style>
<xsl:comment><![CDATA[<![endif]]]></xsl:comment>

<xsl:comment>[if IE]>
   <![CDATA[
      <style type="text/css" media="screen">
         @import url('style/IE.main.css');      /* level 1 */
         @import url('style/IE.window.css');    /* level 2 */
         @import url('style/IE.document.css');  /* level 3 */
      </style>
   ]]>
&lt;![endif]</xsl:comment>

Output:


<!--[if !IE]><!-->
   <style type="text/css" media="screen">
   <!--
      @import url("style/Moz.main.css");      /* level 1 */
      @import url("style/Moz.window.css");    /* level 2 */
      @import url("style/Moz.document.css");  /* level 3 */
   -->
   </style>
<!--<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE]>
   <style type="text/css" media="screen">
      @import url('style/IE.main.css');      /* level 1 */
      @import url('style/IE.window.css');    /* level 2 */
      @import url('style/IE.document.css');  /* level 3 */
   </style>
<![endif]-->

Configuring PHP + SSI for Apache

Naturally you need to be careful


AddType application/x-httpd-php .php 
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .php .htm .html

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