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On 5/23/2011 2:02 PM, Lew wrote:

> <h:outputStylesheet name="/css/purrtones.css" />


Thanks for pointing this out.  I was using a regular <link> attribute. 
Those don't seem to be translated or affected by the JSF processing at 
all, and just emit their HTML literally.  The h:outputStylesheet looks 
more sophisticated.

I found a website which explains a bit more:

<http://blogs.oracle.com/rlubke/entry/jsf_2_0_new_feature4>

I've got _Java Server Faces 2.0_, by Ed Burns et al, pub. McGraw-Hill. 
Ed Burns was apparently the spec co-lead for JSF 2.0, and I have to say 
I'm not impressed by his book.  His section on templates uses raw HTML 
<link> attributes just like I did, and the whole book barely mentions 
h:outputStylesheet.  It's only touched on once in the listing of the 
entire component library, which is a pretty unpedagogical way of 
presenting it.

The Burns book also says that h:outputStylesheet looks for its resources 
under the /resources directory in the application root.  Since you're 
plainly specifying a different location, I'm going to have to explore 
resource resolution here a bit more to figure out what the full story is.

Thanks again for getting me pointed in the right direction.