- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:58:47 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
James Card wrote: > >> I don't think this is feasible, although I accept that >> the effect is highly desirable : you are asking CSS >> to affect the interpretation of the /semantics/ of >> an *ML document, whereas (AFAIK) CSS is restricted >> to affecting the /appearance/ of such documents. > > For a constrained set like (X)HTML where the valid elements and > attributes are known in advance, it is possible to accomplish this > effect using CSS. Actually, this would be asking CSS to affect the interpretation of the *syntax* of an SGML/XML document, and thus how the parser interprets character data in the document file. It is not possible to do any such thing using CSS, whether the document vocabulary is known in advance or not. Not only is there no valid property that does this, but, as Boris Zbarsky pointed out, the CSS processing model precludes any such behavior: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/intro.html#processing-model > A generic solution that would work with any well-formed XML file is > probably not possible. But it is possible. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-cdata-sect ~fantasai
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