- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:18:06 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Sjoerd Visscher writes: > Seeing this discussion about BECSS and if it should be allowed > inside a style sheet, I want to propose an idea I've had for > a while now: > > Seperately defining the transformation part of CSS (CSST), > in such a way that it can be used for all kinds of purposes. > > What is the transformation part of CSS? > I think it is: "dynamically adding attributes and content > to a (already structured) document". > These attributes and content do not have to conform to > a DTD or Schema of the document. They are added for > presentational purposes only. This is just to provide some links to related resources: Your idea is not too different from STTS3, a submission that W3C received from EDF, about two years ago (updated last year). See http://www.w3.org/Submission/1998/19/ It has a slighly different processing model from CSS, because it not only *adds* to an existing document structure, but can also *remove* things, but otherwise the syntax is the same as CSS. There is an implementation available of the first submission, STTS2 (called CSSize, see http://www.edf.fr/der/html/produits/publications/w3c/CSSize/cssize.en.htm). Also, the CSS working group plans to release the selectors, syntax, and cascading/inheritance/value-assignment modules of CSS3 as independent specifications, so it becomes easier to design CSS-like languages to add other things than style to a document. See http://www.w3.org/Style/css/current-work Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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