- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:08:31 +0200
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>, public-houdini@w3.org
Hello Daniel, Thursday, July 30, 2015, 10:28:57 AM, you wrote: > I think the CSS general syntax, because of its high readability and > rather flat learning curve, will reach territories beyond styling in > the near-term future. One of the areas the CSS syntax does not cover > yet, despite of my "ancient STTS proposal" quoted above, is simple > tree transformations. XSLT has always been a super-powerful but also > super- complex technology and I think it's only a question of time > before a replacement language based on the CSS syntax appears. > We have almost everything we need for it, Agreed (with the "almost"). > if you except a selection > mechanism for non-element nodes that is already under discussion in > www-style (even if there is some rather strong resistance to it). To my mind, the resistance to things like selectors for attributes is caused by several of: - people worried this ends up in CSS-the-language, or - people worried about spending time on things that css-the-language doesn't need Formalising GCS vs. CSS could add clarity to such debates. > Houdini is crucial and a cornerstone of the future of the Web. We > need to provide access to the CSS lexer and parser and we need to > make them grok properties and values that are outside of the current > CSS space. Yes, absolutely. -- Best regards, Chris Lilley Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
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