Re: Converting Strict XHTML + CSS with XSLT

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From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>


> 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?

Exactly my question.

P. Andries

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