Gateway URL Transformation in stylesheet

Hi,
Is it possible for the portal to rewrite URLs in a cascading stylesheet?
The following excerpt is from a stylesheet used by a number of gatewayed pages. We know it works just fine when you hit the page directly, but when the page is gatewayed the image URL is not transformed and so the images don't render:
.subNavigation{ margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; list-style-image: url(/_interface/gfx/jnet_bullet.gif);}
I saw in the doco that there's pt:transformer and pt:url tags but they won't work in this context.
Any ideas?
cheersAni

Ani,
There is a bit of a backdoor, in that all content in portlets is transformed, and stylesheets do cascade, so one trick would be to embed the CSS itself directly in the HTML of a header portlet, and then add that header portlet to the default subportal object (or whichever subportal you happen to be using on those pages). I'm not absolutely certain it would work but it is worth a try.
Embedding CSS directly in HTML is a bit odd, but here's an example:
http://www.uri.edu/home/help/css/css2.html
- david phipps

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