Re: SAX parser for CSS (Was: Conversion from xsl to xs

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Subject: Re: SAX parser for CSS (Was: Conversion from xsl to xsl:fo)
From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:19:33 +0200

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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