2007/cssxml/

About

This project hosts experimental code developed by the mobileOK checker task force, looking at serializing CSS in an XML format to facilitate its analysis with XML tools.

See also the public-mobileok-checker@w3.org archived mailing list, and the thread that started this project tree.

Known Bugs and ToDo

• Non printing chars should be escaped in element names, property names and property values
• Some thoughts about things that could be done

cssxml Schema and Documentation

A schema has been prepared (as has a less correct DTD), and some documentation describing the schema, generated using oXygen.

Examples

The code has been tested with a number of source files.

Acid2

A CSS source file was created from the ACID2 test and transformed to cssxml (result). There are a number of deliberate errors in this file.

A feature test file

Exercises some CSS features not excercised by other examples (result)

The handheld and screen CSS used at http://www.w3.org/Mobile

(results: handheld, screen)

The example1 and example2 CSS from deep within the bowels of CSS Validator CVS at http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/css-validator/

(Results: Example1, Example2). Interestingly (well, given the restricted intellectual domain of the subject matter), example2 contains an @page rule within an @media print rule. This is in fact incorrect, according to the grammar of CSS, but is it meant to be?

Code

The code lives in this tree src.org.w3c.mwi.xcss - like a crow with a machine gun (dangerous).

Dependencies

Apache Commons CLI 1.0

Flute for Java 1.3

J2SE 1.6

Licenses

See COPYRIGHT.html for the license for this code and associated documentation.

Also see lib for licenses to libraries.

References

CSS Home Page, Level 2 Revision 1

SAC Home Page, Javadoc

DOM Object Model for CSS

Acknowledgements

Thanks to SyncROsoft for the W3C Member license for oXygen, which was used under Eclipse for XML editing and production of the schema and its documentation.

Portions of the DocumentHandler Class started out life as part of a helper class in the mobileOK checker, and in turn was borrowed from soewhere else. It's not at all like the original any more.

I (Jo) looked at JXCSS, which helped me develop my thoughts about what was needed.

Dom set this area up - thanks!

Contact

Since this is a spin-off from the mobileOK checker project, I guess that public-mobileOK-checker (archive) would be a good place to discuss it.

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README.cvs.html		1.10	16 years	JoRabin	Correct broken lok to Schema Documentation
todo.txt		1.3	16 years	JoRabin	Correct broken lok to Schema Documentation
COPYRIGHT.html		1.1	16 years	JoRabin	Update with licenses etc.
.classpath		1.2	16 years	JoRabin	committing code
.project		1.1	16 years	JoRabin	committing source tree