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Tim Anderson
Jan 17, 2003, 3:14:01 PM1/17/03
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Why aren't CSS files written in XML?
Tim
writing a CSS parser
PS if anyone knows of a CSS parser for .Net let me know!
I'd rather not use mshtml.
arnold m. slotnik
Jan 17, 2003, 3:28:16 PM1/17/03
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In article <ee0$5SmvCHA.848@TK2MSFTNGP11>,
"Tim Anderson" <tim...@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Tim Anderson" <tim...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Why aren't CSS files written in XML?
That's easy--CSS predates XML by a couple of years.
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a.m. slotnik
Rowland Shaw
Jan 20, 2003, 3:31:39 AM1/20/03
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"arnold m. slotnik" <amsl...@att.net> wrote...
> "Tim Anderson" <tim...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Why aren't CSS files written in XML?
>
> That's easy--CSS predates XML by a couple of years.
> "Tim Anderson" <tim...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Why aren't CSS files written in XML?
>
> That's easy--CSS predates XML by a couple of years.
The other main reason (or the one they were thinking of at the time) was so
that it could easilly be contained in HTML (or whatever).
Similarly, XPath isn't in a traditional XML type format either (and that was
desigined since XML).
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