Re: Substitutions for site/path in SRC,HREF

I don't think discussing new features for CSS is within the scope of  
this group though.

- Elliott

On May 18, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Dão Gottwald wrote:

>
> Dmitry, you tend to invent whole new sub- and super-languages in  
> your proposals. Please try to stick with the markup language and  
> DOM patterns as we know them today.
>
> I do think it should be possible to define and reuse variables / 
> within/ style sheets, e.g. for repeating colors, file paths etc..  
> Your example, on the other hand, shows what can be substituted on  
> the server side.
>
> --Dao
>
> Dmitry Turin schrieb:
>> Values of several attributes SRC and HREF can have identical part
>> (for example, name of site, or path to directory),
>> but it's impossible to specify value of this part in css-file (and  
>> in STYLE-element)
>> as because SRC and HREF are not properies,
>> as because css-file (and STYLE-element) can define only _whole_ value
>> instead of part of value.
>> I offer to enter _substitutions_ like the following
>> ($site$, $path$, $location$, $site_and_path$ are substitutions).
>> Because SRC and HREF are attributes,
>> i suggest to use not css-file or STYLE-element, but to use sbs- 
>> file or SBS-element
>> <html>
>>   <head>
>>   </head>
>>   <sbs>
>>     site:          site.net;
>>     path:          folder1/folder2;
>>     location:      dirA/dirB/dirC/dirD/dirE;
>>     site_and_path: site.com/dir1/dir2/dir3;
>>   </sbs>
>>   <body>
>>     <link href="$site$/$path$/filename.txt">
>>     <img  src= "/$location$/filename.jpg">
>>     <a    href="$site_and_path$/filename.htm">
>>   </body>
>> </html>
>> <html>
>>   <head>
>>     <link src=./filename.txt type="text/sbs" rel="substitution">
>>   </head>
>>   <body>
>>     <link href="$site$/$path$/filename.txt">
>>     <img  src= "/$location$/filename.jpg">
>>     <a    href="$site_and_path$/filename.htm">
>>   </body>
>> </html>
>> Dmitry Turin
>> http://html6.by.ru
>> http://sql4.by.ru
>> http://computer2.by.ru
>
>

Received on Friday, 18 May 2007 16:30:34 UTC