Re: Converting Strict XHTML + CSS with XSLT

--- "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

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