Re: Is it possible to use css stylesheets in xsl fo

Cross posted to www-xsl-fo list, where it belongs.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Ivs" <[email protected]>

> I have lot of inline style information in my xsl fo
> file.
>

This information belongs in an xsl:attribute-set.  They can be collected and
moved to an xsl:include file if you prefer that degree of separation.  They have
a mechanism for inheriting properties and can greatly clean up your style
regime.

>
> I was wondering if it is possible to import a .css

No.  Do any commercial FO processors do this yet?  Any standalone packages?  FOP
does not.

> By doing so my code will be much cleaner. Any help on
> this is appreciated.

CSS2 is largely mapped onto a subset of XSL-FO.  It should be possible to define
your styles in terms of xsl:attribute-sets of formatting objects properties and
write a stylesheet to convert those to css styles.  This would streamline
maintenance of a single set of property definitions exposed in two separate
syntaxes.  Typically, though, there is not that much correspondence between the
web and print presentations.

hth,

Mike


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