Closed Bug 8463 Opened 25 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Easy-to-integrate DSSSL engine in Mozilla...

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: roland.mainz, Assigned: pierre)

Details

Forward from the DocZilla mailinglist:

-- snip --
> Is there a DSSL engine planned for doczilla ?

Well, we are not planning one. But there is always the XPCOM architecture,
so nothing is preventing you, for example, developing a DSSSL engine to plug
into DocZilla ;) I guess it would not be too difficult to create an XPCOM
wrapper for James Clarks Jade that could do something...
-- snip --

James Clarks expat is in... what about JADE ?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → LATER
Not even close to being on my radar at the moment. Feel free to take a stab at
it...
Filed small note to mozillaZine... maybe there's someone how does the little
job.
Target Milestone: M12
BTW: The idea comes from Heikki Toivonen" <heikki@citec.fi>.
Marked as M12, to get a early notice that there's still a way to get into "a
billion $$ market" (also from the doczilla ml)...
Last but not least (if I get a job here at the University) I can __try__ to hook
it up after M12 myself...
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Verified later.
Summary: Easy-to-integrate DSSL engine in Mozilla... → Easy-to-integrate DSSSL engine in Mozilla...
Fixed the Summary, it is DSSSL (nicknamed "diesel").

I haven't checked lately, but probably the easiest way to hook a DSSSL engine
into Mozilla would be via the MIME converter interface. Of course, that would
only be doing transformations as far as I can tell.

Also, if you want to get started, you should probably take a look at the
discussion about plugging an XSLT engine into Mozilla. James Clark had some
comments on that so he may actually be implementing it. The discussion was on
some Mozilla newsgroup, should be easy to find if you look for posts by James.

Layout is still a completely different issue.

There is a brief mention about DSSSL in Mozilla in this mozillaZine talkback
section:

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=610
Assignee: peterl → pierre
Status: VERIFIED → NEW
Reassigning peterl's latered bugs to myself.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
LATER when ? Mozilla 9 ? =:-)
LATER means that it will not be included in this version but it will be

considered when planning for the next one. I don't think it will make it though:

we have plenty to do already in CSS2/CSS3. Besides the DSSSL spec may evolve, see

the "Re: New Working Draft : BECSS" thread on <www.style@w3.org> starting on Sun,

24 Oct 1999.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Verified LATER
Reopening my LATER'd bugs
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Resolution: LATER → ---
We have no plans in that regard.  It's a typical case of "you want it, you do 
it".  Closed as WontFix.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Any idea whether the DocZilla people may contribute parts of their work ?
As far as I know DocZilla has no DSSSL nor any plans to support it. You might
want to talk to Didier Martin (?) or other DSSSL people... I don't know contact
info, but you might want to start searching from http://www.oasis-open.org for
DSSSL.
verifying wontfix
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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