Re: styling xml with css - copying xml attribute values into CSS attribute values from David Woolley on 2005-12-17 (www-style@w3.org from December 2005)

From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:51:07 +0000 (GMT)
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <200512171551.jBHFp7717608@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

> However, he is right in that you can apply semantic behavior through
> CSS, and not just a look. There is absolutely nothing special about

By definition you cannot.

> XHTML that couldn't be applied through the matching mechanism that CSS
> uses.

You can define a language that associates behaviours or even semantics
(like the tagged PDF model where the primary tree is presentational) with
a parse tree, that uses the CSS selector syntax, but it would not be CSS,
and should not be interleaved with CSS rules.

Received on Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:00:55 UTC