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List:       myfaces-user
Subject:    Re: CSS-Property-Database needed!
From:       Martin Marinschek <martin.marinschek () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-11-17 16:51:56
Message-ID: 5a99335f0511170851wbb7f2b2y9c0a5f5ac1ef9bd4 () mail ! gmail ! com
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nice plan - no clue though, never seen something like this (except the
w3c official stuff, of course).

Have you asked them if they provide this information machine readable as well?

regards,

Martin

On 11/17/05, Hendrik Neumann <thiuth@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we (a small team of applied-computer-science-students at the
> Ruhr-University of Bochum) want to create an Opensource-CSS-Editor for
> web-applications based on the JavaServer Faces-specification.
> Therefore we need a formalized database (or a simple text/xml-file or
> something equal) which contains informations about all the avaible
> attributes defined in the several CSS-Versions and the values which
> are allowed for each attribute (of course informations about
> browser-compatibility would also be great).
>
> I'm thinking about a formalized database which contains informations like these:
>
> Attribute-Name: text-align
> Category: visual
> CSS-Version: 1, 2, 3
> Initial: browserspecific
> Value: fixed
> Possible Value: left | right | center | justify | <string> | inherit
> Short-Description: This property describes how text is aligned within
> the element. The actual justification algorithm used is UA and human
> language dependent.
> Inhereted: yes
> Applies to: block-level elements
> Example: text-align: center;
>
> It would be perfect if we could develop our CSS-Editor based on such a
> database, but we can not find such kind of information-source on the
> W3C-Homepage. They just serve "human-readable" xhtml-sites but nothing
> which we can analyse with a computer. Also searching around using
> Google didn't help - it seems so that such an information-source does
> not exist! The only thing we found was a project which seems to be
> dead (last updated: 29 May 2001):
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/electronic-publishing/css/.
>
> From which source obtain other CSS-editors and CSS-validators the
> informations which values in which CSS-versions are allowed for a
> attribute and which attributes exist - do we need to build up such a
> database by our own?
>
> Greetings,
> Hendrik Neumann,
>
> Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
>


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