Re: [xsl] SAX parser for CSS (Was: Conversion from xsl to xsl:fo)

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Pietschmann wrote:

> David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > It ought to be a good time to invent XCSS :-)
> > or for the java programmers on this list with time on their hands, to
> > implement a SAX parser for CSS. (cf the genealogy example in Mike's
> > book).
>
> Well, i'd rather have XCSS. Reasons:
> - no additional software to install
> - not Java-locked
> - standardized vocabulary.
> Apart from this, would you mind to write a DTD or XSchema for the
> XML mapping of CSS? I already have some code, but it is restricted
> to the CSS syntax subset i'm using (no @media, for example), and
> i'm to lazy^H^H^H^Hoccupied with other stuff to read the CSS
> syntax spec in detail.


As many people on this list, I have also been thinking about this and, 
IMHO, the parsing will not be the difficult part (and a SAX parser or a 
XML vocabulary are equivalent) and what is much harder is to match the 
CSS selectors and XPath...

A while ago, Robin Berjon even came to the conclusion that they were 
incompabible...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Jan/0091.html

My 0.02 Euros

Eric


> Regards
> J.Pietschmann


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