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
