Re: [xsl] Converting Strict XHTML + CSS with XSLT

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeni Tennison wrote:
> I think
> that you will find this very hard to do using XSLT, mainly because
> parsing CSS (or any text-based format) is not particularly easy. If I
> were you, I'd have two steps: one to create an XML version of the CSS
> and the other to do the actual interpretation of the XHTML against the
> CSS. The hard thing then will be working out how to match a particular
> XHTML element against the CSS selectors, particularly doing so quickly
> and efficiently.
I think selectors can be translated to XPath match patterns
easily. The whole process would be:
- XMLify CSS, including transforming CSS selectors to XPath
- generate a XSLT from the XCSS which will attach XCSS styles
  to matched elements
- run the "enrichment" XSLT on the XHTML
- run the final transformation.

Question: Why isn't anyone working on XCSS, or am I something
missing?

J.Pietschmann



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