What I would like to be able to do is extend previously existing XXE
stylesheets using new stylesheets without having to copy the stylesheets
to be extended[0] into a known location. I currently have an extension
to the DocBook DTD (for Norman Walsh's literate programming information
set), and in order to style it I have copied the XXE-distributed
stylesheets into a user configuration directory, from which I can create
a separate stylesheet which imports these to extend them. I don't know
if this would be possible, but it would be nice to have a configuration
item which would enable you to apply a given stylesheet after other
stylesheets have been applied. Perhaps the following would work:
<mergecss
with = name of previously existing stylesheet
location = anyURI, pointing to the additional stylesheet
system = boolean : false, having the same semantics as
the same attribute on the include
configuration item
/>
Thoughts? Is there a better way to achieve what I'm trying to
accomplish? I can't think of any way that user configuration
stylesheets can a priori know what the filenames of system stylesheets
might be.
Take care,
John L. Clark
[0] With respect to the stylesheets (and other configuration files)
distributed with XXE, what are our (that is, XXE users') rights? I
wasn't really clear on how the license provided with XXE applies to
these "exists-as-source" items, such as the CSS files for the DocBook
configuration. For example, can I copy them (as above) in order to
extend them? Can I modify them directly? Can I distribute
modifications, or patches?
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