applying CSS styles to xml elements via class attribute

[luke.crouch@gmail.com]

My server-side php script is generating an xml response with the
following structure:

<thread class='Columns' >
<Id class='Column dataDetail'>123 45</Id>
<Command class='Column dataDetail'>SET </Command>
..
..
..
</thread>

I have CSS styles defined for Columns, Column, and dataDetail like
so...

..Columns {overflow: auto; width: 100%; font-size: smaller}
..Column {position: relative; float: left; width: 100px; height: 20px;}
..dataDetail { border-top: 1px solid #c0dfc5; font-size: smaller}

But these styles don't apply to the thread element and its children
even though they have the class attribute. Do CSS class-specific
selectors only apply to HTML elements? If I replace the xml element
names with 'div' the CSS styles apply correctly.

How can I make the CSS apply to XML elements with class atributes?

Thanks.

[David Dorward]

Re: applying CSS styles to xml elements via class attribute

luke.crouch@gma il.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> <thread class='Columns' >[/color]
[color=blue]
> I have CSS styles defined for Columns, Column, and dataDetail like
> so...
>
> .Columns {overflow: auto; width: 100%; font-size: smaller}[/color]

The CSS class selector is a bit of magic that *only* applies to HTML
documents[1]. Use the attribute selector instead.

[class=Columns] { ... }


[1] So not to generic XML documents, and not to XHTML[2] documents
[2] XHTML documents served as text/html are not XHTML, they are broken HTML
(confused? Yes. XHTML is silly).

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[Michael Winter]

Re: applying CSS styles to xml elements via class attribute

On 26/01/2006 00:00, David Dorward wrote:

[snip]
[color=blue]
> [class=Columns] { ... }[/color]

[class~=Columns] { ... }

would more closely match the behaviour of class selectors with HTML.

[snip]

Mike

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