Would it be a good approach to write a Gadget that does not render the
outermost node and its text nodes, but renders its element children
normally with the exising CSS rules?
Am I way off base here? Is there a better way of accomplishing this?
Regards,
Mike
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:23 +0100, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> Michael Santy wrote:
> > I'm looking to create a footnote pane for a Docbook-like schema. An
> > example of the XML is:
> >
> > <Para>
> > This is my paragraph<Footnote>There are many like it but this one is
> > mine</Footnote>. It should just serve as filler<Footnote>Another
> > Example Footnote</Footenote>. Text after the footnotes.
> > </Para>
> >
> > I would like to render this block of CSS like this:
> >
> > 1 - There are many like it but this one is mine.
> > 2 - Another Example Footnote
> >
> > I was able render the Footnote tags properly, but I cannot hide the text
> > nodes in the enclosing Paragraph. I currently have something like this:
> >
> > This is my paragraph1 - There are many like it but this one is mine.
> > It should just serve as filler2 - Another Example FootnoteText after the
> > footnotes.
> >
> > I've tried styling the Para with:
> >
> > Para {
> > display: none;
> > }
> >
> > but this hides all content nested inside of the paragraph. It would be
> > nice if XMLmind had a CSS rule for styling text nodes similar to the
> > rules for styling comments and processing instructions. In my example,
> > any properties set on the text nodes of a Para would not cascade to
> > Footnote elements. I'm thinking that the syntax would be:
> >
> > Para::text {
> > display: none;
> > }
>
> Para::text is absolutely *not* supported by XXE. (If it were supported,
> it would have been documented in
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/otherext.html
> and this is not case.)
>
>
>
> > Is there another way to accomplish the same goal without adding this
> > nonstandard CSS rule?
>
> No. I'm sorry but there is currently no way to achieve what you want
> whether using standard or non standard CSS rules.
