- From: Christian Roth <roth@visualclick.de>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:46:21 +0100
- Cc: "www-style Mailing List" <www-style@w3.org>
Rowland Shaw wrote: >I think what Devon was after was a way to say "this here XML element is the >title" for use when displaying XML+CSS rather than HTML. This, IMO, ties in very much with the <footnote> thoughts from Christian Hujer earlier on this list, because it essentially boils down to have a greater variety of standard, yet specially handled typographical problems, mainly for print on paper (paged media, [1]), and even more for the combination of XML+CSS. I am currently investigating (privately) pros and cons of a greater variety of values for the 'display' property (resp. 'display-model' and 'display-group' in CSS3), where I'd be interested in something like {display: footnote}, {display: window-title}, {display: page-header} or {display: margin-text}, with corresponding properties like "footnote- position-type: end | page | popup", valid only for elements with {display: footnote}. I see that my thoughts touch many places in CSS2/3, so I am not really ready to suggest solutions. For my background: Currently, I am working on an XML+CSS based converter to RTF, which is in a way different from a browser or PDF in that its output is still declarative (RTF is fully declarative, except for FIELDs) and not a finished layout, so problems arise at all points where CSS uses a functional approach (like counter()/counters() or some constructions for the 'content' property). I hope to gain more insights as to what I'd eventually need (as opposed to "nice-to-have") in CSS for my particular task, and therefore whether CSS actually is the right approach for it. Regards, Christian Roth
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