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David Rosenborg writes: >But when I think of it, we really don't have to wait for XSL-FO 2 for >this to happen. XSL-FO++ (with CSS) could be handled in a preprocessor >yielding XSL-FO 1.0 as its output. I've been trying to get around to writing a toolkit that does pretty much that, though probably with a limited (structure-only) set of selectors. As fond as I am of the CSS annotation approach, it seems more and more that some means of making those annotations explicit in the document might be useful on occasion, especially in cases where we'd like to further transform annotated documents. CSS is probably the most common case (and presentation-centric), but it's not hard to see other cases where combining external annotations with markup to produce markup explicitly annotated with attributes would be a good thing. Linkbases are another possible case, and I can at least dream of interactions between XML documents and RDF. (The PSVI is another possibility, but its provision of additional information about attributes makes it a lot more difficult to express as XML without major structural changes to the document. Linkbases referencing ranges through XPointer also could make this difficult.) The W3C has a (Java) CSS parser available: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/css-validator/ That may or may not be a good starting place for people who want to do this kind of thing. As I'm working on XML parsers and similar low-level stuff right now, I suspect I'll end up writing my own parser... someday! ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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