Using a custom stylesheet for a custom Content Query Webpart

Using the following (3) links as reference:

They mention going to /Style Libary/XSL Style Sheets/ItemStyle.xsl and modifying. As Heather mentions, this unghosts the page. Not the most desirable behavior. Plus, any user that does this will now see that as an option in the Presentation node of the Content Query Web Part Toolpane.

So in the .webpart file that is exported, find the ItemXslLink property and change it to something like:
<property name="ItemXslLink" type="string">/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/CustomItemStyle.xsl</property>

So here is what what my CustomItemStyle.xsl looks like:
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
exclude-result-prefixes="x d xsl msxsl cmswrt"
xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp"
xmlns:cmswrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v3/Publishing/runtime"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
<xsl:template name="MyTemplate" match="*" mode="itemstyle">
<div style="background: red"><xsl:value-of select="@MyField" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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>>Publish Date: 6/3/2007 8:09:56 AM
>>Keywords: xsl http

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