RE: css as xml?

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Peter Foti (PeterF) wrote:
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> I haven't been following this thread, but I can think of 1 benefit of an CSS
> as XML... XML User Agents would only need a single parser, vs. having both
> an XML parser and a CSS parser.

This isn't true. They'd still need an HTTP parser, a URI parser, a CSS
value parser, a JavaScript parser, a PNG parser, etc. In any case, the
parser is by _far_ the _easiest_ part of CSS to implement, so this isn't
really an advantage.

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Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:55:08 UTC