Re: [xsl] CSSXX to XML

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dorothy, I have an example of using unparsed-text() and 
<xsl:analyze-string> with regular expressions in this 
publicly-available set of stylesheets that convert CSV 
(comma-separated values) and TSV (tab-separated values) into XML:

  http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/#csv

The input is a text file and the output is XML.  If I were to write 
what you need I would start with these files myself and work from there.

I hope this helps!

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

At 2013-03-30 15:03 -0400, Dorothy Hoskins wrote:
> HI, I have an interesting problem in that I am trying to figure out
> how to load and process a CSS file to grab content from CSS class
> definitions and poke them into XML files.
> In the source XML, which is scraped from XHTML pages, I find images
> with CSS classes:
> <img class="frame-3" src="image/file.jpeg" alt="image" />
>
> In the CSS of the ePub, I find the dimension information that I want
> for the image:
> img.frame-3 {
>     height:448px;
>     width:339px;
> }
>
> My desired XML output is <image height="44" width="339"
> src="image/file.jpeg" alt="image" />
>
> I have the idea of grabbing the CSS and processing the CSS text to
> achieve something like this:
> <css>
> <class element="img" name="frame-3">
> <attribute name="height" value="44"/><!-- px assumed in XHTML -->
> <attribute name="width" value="339"/>
> </class>
> </css>
>
> I know I can handle everything else I want to do once I get the CSS
> into an XML structure. The commonalities of the CSS text are that a
> line which contains "{" has the information I want for the
> class/@element and class/@name. The subsequent lines until the "}"
> occurs have the content that I want to process into the attribute/name
> and attribute/value. It seems like regex is the way to go but I don't
> know how to start - do I load the CSS file into a variable as
> xs:string? process it as unparsed-text? if anyone knows a good example
> of creating such structure from a text input in the archives or
> online, please point me in the right direction.
> Thanks, Dorothy


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