- From: Patrick Andries <pandries@iti.qc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:20:37 -0700
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@yahoo.de> > Jeni Tennison wrote: > > I think > > that you will find this very hard to do using XSLT, mainly because > > parsing CSS (or any text-based format) is not particularly easy. If I > > were you, I'd have two steps: one to create an XML version of the CSS > > and the other to do the actual interpretation of the XHTML against the > > CSS. The hard thing then will be working out how to match a particular > > XHTML element against the CSS selectors, particularly doing so quickly > > and efficiently. > I think selectors can be translated to XPath match patterns > easily. The whole process would be: > - XMLify CSS, including transforming CSS selectors to XPath > - generate a XSLT from the XCSS which will attach XCSS styles > to matched elements > - run the "enrichment" XSLT on the XHTML > - run the final transformation. > > Question: Why isn't anyone working on XCSS, or am I something > missing? Exactly my question. P. Andries ---------------- Unicode en français (texte normatif, annotations, tous les caractères 3.2) http://hapax.iquebec.com
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