On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:
That sounds excellent. I hope to see it implemented soon.
Daniel
Peter von Kaehne wrote:
Daniel Owens wrote:
This is probably opening a low-priority can of worms, but what if
some controls on the form a module is displayed in were encoded in
the conf file? I mean, you could define how certain attributes
should be displayed to give module developers more control over
how their modules display.
Matthew and I started experimenting a little with using more of CSS
in the main display panes of xiphos. The idea being to get a) more
display design going with less effort and b) making it -
potentially - possible for module writers to supply along with
their module a style sheet how they wished to see certain elements
expressed.
This is all experimental work and might never come to anything, but
given that nearly all frontends of importance use a HTML renderer
with CSS capability we thought this something we should aat least
explore further.
JSword has a bug, but it has a mechanism to allow external CSS.
The path that JSword takes in converting a module to HTML bears
repeating:
Module output is transformed into OSIS (or left as TEI) by custom
parsers which is then transformed into HTML using xslt. JSword allows
for the plugging in of different xslt style sheets.
The HTML that is produced is unlike that of SWORD's html renderers,
which largely output presentation HTML. Rather it produces structural
HTML using the class attribute to indicate what is output. These then
are styled with CSS. (Because of the limits of Java's HTML renderer,
the HTML has lots of hacks. Such as using <font> as if it were a
<abbr> or <span> and <div> as if it were <caption>) Here are some
examples:
<xsl:template match="caption">
<div class="caption"><xsl:apply-templates/></div>
</xsl:template>
<!-- expansion is OSIS, expan is TEI -->
<xsl:template match="abbr">
<font class="abbr">
<xsl:if test="@expansion">
<xsl:attribute name="title">
<xsl:value-of select="@expansion"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="@expan">
<xsl:attribute name="title">
<xsl:value-of select="@expan"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</font>
</xsl:template>
While JSword does not apply styles to these, they are still marked so
that they can be styled.
In Christ,
DM
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