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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CSS Parsers & Eclipse
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On 2 Mar 2015, at 14:48, LETAVERNIER Camille wrote:
Hi all,
In Papyrus, we're considering a migration to the CSS version 3
(Instead of the CSS 2.1 we're currently using). Until now, we were
partially relying on the E4 CSS Engine, and the underlying Batik/CSS
Parser. However, the parser doesn't support CSS3. We've been
investigating different CSS3 parsers for Java, and found that all
parsers implementing the W3C SAC API are hardly maintained (With an
exception for CSSParser [1], but it is distributed under the LGPL
License, so it is not an option).
have you asked if the project would be willing to consider an
alternative license ?
/max
So we're now seriously considering the Phloc CSS Parser [2], which
unfortunately doesn't implement SAC (So the translation is not
straightforward). This means that we'll have to re-implement most of
the engine as well. Are there any other projects interested in moving
to a more recent version of CSS? The parser/API is the main concern
here IMO, since CSS3 is split into several optional modules (You can
simply ignore some of the parsed elements if you don't need to support
a given module, but the parser needs to recognize every elements to
successfully parse the file).
We also provide an XText editor for CSS (Currently 2.1), but it's not
good enough to be used at runtime, so we only use it as a file editor
(especially for Papyrus-specific auto-completion and such). We'll
incrementally update it to support the CSS3 concepts we need, but
we're not planning to go much further.
[1] http://cssparser.sourceforge.net/
[2] https://code.google.com/p/phloc-css/
Regards,
Camille
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