Re: [iSVG] CSS DOM issues

[Robin B. <ro...@kn...>]

On Friday 28 September 2001 17:35, Antoine Quint wrote:
> Well, it's good to have these too. 

s/good/vital/ ;-)

> My example is not simply shortcut to
> your piece of code.

It is a shortcut in that that's what would happen internally if you fed it a 
string.

> We need a Create* method taking a string as a
> parameter so that any string, possibly one read in a non-"style"
> attribute like in iDrag, can benefit from the CSSStyleDeclaration
> interface. It would allow us for parsing such a string, your example
> relies on the string being parsed already really. But what's in your
> example is required too since we need to be able to create style objects
> in such a verbose way too.

Yes, I know your needs Antoine, and I agree. If this were my implementation 
in a sane language (ie that either doesn't have method signatures OR has them 
_and_ multiple dispatch, anything in the middle being just plain stupid) it 
would happen this way.

However in this context I doubt that there will be a 
createCSSStyleDeclaration() and a createCSSStyleDeclarationFromString(string).

The talk that's going on right now seems to imply that parsing facilities may 
be made available (eg parseCSSStyleDeclaration as it exists in SAC: 
http://search.cpan.org/doc/RBERJON/CSS-SAC-0.03/SAC.pm , I keep referring to 
my module for the spec but that's because the spec is quasi inexistant) in 
which case you could do what you do with a stream model and without touching 
the actual object model (which would be a problem).

Another solution that I've been thinking about is a way to tell the host DOM 
that a given attribute is a style holding attribute. Yes, this should have 
made it into XSchema but they preferred to fuck with namespaces instead and 
leave us with a number of awful things. It might be in XSD 1.1 though (xing 
fingers...). In any case a way to set it from the DOM would be great.

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