Could we add CSS?

[Aaron Swartz]

On 2002-04-07 12:45 AM, "Michael" <formido@mac.com> wrote:

>> This is sort of a far-off question, but I was wondering about the
>> viability of adding stylesheets to OPML files. I imagine it would be
>> hard to do and require some reworking of the CSS standards, but it would
>> be interesting still.
>> 
>> I'd like to hear other thoughts on this.
> 
> You're absolutely right about the needing to rework the standard.

I don't think so. CSS is pretty adaptable, having been used for such strange
formats as RDF/XML. The problem with OPML, however, is that it puts the
textual content inside attributes and I know no way to get it out using CSS.
If it weren't for that, CSS might work pretty well with OPML.

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