- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:41:55 +0100
- To: Rowland Shaw <Rowland.Shaw@crystaldecisions.com>
- Cc: "'Patrick Andries'" <pandries@iti.qc.ca>, "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Rowland Shaw wrote: > > I also happen to agree with Ian Hickson; XML is not really suited to CSS as > it is today, due to it's non treelike structure. > > For the record, I'd refine his example to: > <rule> > <selector> <!-- I guess there's nothing to stop you using Xpath queries > instead --> > *:test > test:* > </selector> > <declaration> > <property>color</property> > <value> > <rgba red="25%" green="100%" blue="0%" alpha="0.5" /> > </value> > </declaration> > </rule> > But I still prefer (if only for it's conciseness): > *|test > test|* { color: rgba( 25%, 100%, 0%, 0.5); } That still leaves the selector in its original CSS form, and the four rgba values still unparsed. It also dropped all the comments, which is a big loss. Also, this wouldn't easily handle the 'content' property in a consistent manner. (see the penultimate rule in the stylesheet in my last post [1]). [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002Jul/0027.html -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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