- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:13:00 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
Has the group thought about including more general textual transformations in CSS? Something like P.abstract {text-edit: "<B>Abstract</B> #value"} where #value is the initial content of the element. This could be made more useful by adding some additional "variables", like list item sequence identifiers, page number, date viewed, date last modifed, title of page, dictionary-term (available in editing the text of the corresponding dictionary-value), etc? The same model would be more useful when working with a domain-specific DTD, where you might do something like: P.bibcit {text-edit: #child.lastname, #child.firstname \ #child.title. ...} to transform hierarchical elements (this assumes there's a DTD that defines an element named BIBCIT that contains elements LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, etc.) into a preferred presentation style. Anything like this in the works? scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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