Re: CSS3 Syntax and Grammar considerations

* L. David Baron wrote:
>Why do you think the complexity CSS2 allows for future extensions is too
>much?

I don't see any good reason to allow at-rules or blocks as property
value or why selectors are optional, thus the grammar is hard to parse
for me. Stricter grammar eases writing a parser for that grammar.

>> Syntax delegation:
>>

>It's hard for me to tell which side you're advocating here.  However, I
>really don't find any of the possible solutions very elegant.

Neither do I. The best approach would be to define the grammar of
at-rules in the relevant modules and collect their syntax in the syntax
module. This would create a dependency for the Syntax module on possibly
all other modules.

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Received on Wednesday, 19 September 2001 11:19:22 UTC