Subject: [xsl] Re: Converting Strict XHTML + CSS with XSLT From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:34:05 -0700 (PDT) |
--- "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm at yahoo dot de> wrote: > > 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 Yes, it is not difficult (e.g. see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-03/msg01074.html), but it isn't interesting, too. Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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