>>> Fortunately, using the wonders of XSL (specifically, XSLT) you can have
>>> the browser transform the raw XML into a pretty-looking XHTML document.
>>>
>>> But *only* if you edit the original XML file to mention the XSLT file
>>> that you want to apply.
>>
>> Why does this come as such a surprise to you?
>>
>> Remember that the same thing is common practice for HTML and CSS as
>> well: If you want the HTML to be rendered using a particular style
>> sheet, you'll usually specify that in the HTML header.
>
> Well, what you say is of course true.
>
> Then again, CSS just applies a few font settings to an HTML file.

and positioning, and size, and background image, and whether the object 
shows up at all on a particular media, etc... but let's not let that get 
in the way of a good argument.

> XSL
> transforms one file into a totally different one. If every single time
> you open that file you're always going to apply the same transformation,
> you might as well just not bother keeping the original file, and only
> store the transformed version. It completely defeats the whole purpose
> of XSL.
>
> Actually, no, that's not /completely/ true. If several files all use the
> same XSL, then changing that one XSL file immediately changes /all/ of
> the files that use it.
>
> Even so, XSL is clearly crying out for the ability to apply more than
> one XSL file to the same source file. And indeed you can trivially do
> that - just not with a web browser, unfortunately.
>
>> I'm not sure whether all modern browsers support client-supplied CSS,
>> but I wouldn't be surprised if there were still some out there that
>> don't. For instance I have no idea how to choose a custom CSS in
>> Firefox; you can disable all CSS, or choose which of multiple
>> server-supplied CSS to use, but that seems to be about it.
>
> I only recently discovered that Firefox even has a UI for changing the
> CSS. ;-) (Or turning it off, for that matter.) I have no idea whether
> you can supply your own CSS; isn't that an optional feature of the spec?
> There's probably a way to do it, but there might not be a UI. (E.g.,
> there may be something hidden in about:config somewhere.)

You can override server-side CSS in Firefox by putting stuff in [your 
profiledir]\Chrome\userContent.css.

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