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Re: from XML+CSS to HTML only

• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• To: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...>
• Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:22:45 +0200

Peter,

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> 
> My own question is how can I transform HTML+CSS into XSL-FO? the point of
> this is to be able to print the HTML in the same format as appears on the
> screen (without using the print button). It requires:
>         - an XHTML2FO.xsl
>         - a CSS2FO.* (not XSLT since CSS is not XML)

I think you shouldn't exclude this option.

Even is CSS is not XML, it would be quite easy to write a CSS SAX parser
reading CSS files and sending SAX events which could be used in a XSLT
transformation.

I have recently done a similar parser reading csv files and sending SAX
events (see http://4xt.org/news/000524-0001.xml) and if you want to go
in this direction, I would be happy to write one for CSS.

> OR:
>         - CSS2XML.* and CSS-XML2FO.xsl [Does the first exist? it would be useful
> to deal with CSS without having to write yet another parser. And it could
> be important for microparsing SVG attributes.]

It's quite similar, except that by using SAX, you avoid intermediate
files.
 
> and some means of combining the results.

I was also considering the reverse (a FO processor generating XHTML +
CSS)...

Hope this helps.

Eric 
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