- From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:32:18 +0100
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Robert Koberg schrieb: > I would hate to see a schema that validates a CSS based XHTML page. > Even worse, I would hate to maintain it. Why would you hate to see, or have to maintain such a schema? Is it the additional tedium you find uninspiring? Or do you think it is a bad application, or even an abuse of XML Schema? If it is the latter, could you explain why you think this is bad? > However, it would be pretty easy to use an XSL to validate your page. > You could base the XSL off of your CSS rules. For example, you might > have a CSS containing: > > #narrow-col #nav { blah... } > <xsl:template match="*" mode="validate-nav"> > <p> > Has Nav: > <xsl:value-of select="exists(key('ident', > 'narrow-col')/*[@id='nav'])"/> > </p> > </xsl:template> That's a good idea. Strangely, it hasn't occurred to me I could use XSLT for the job. It doesn't seem to have a reputation for being a validator tool, yet. Thank you very much! Michael Ludwig
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