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[Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Contextual CSS is pretty rare in my experience, so we should be OK leaving it 
out on a first pass. 

I'll look at the code and give you more comments in a bit.

Kovid.

On Tuesday 09 December 2008 22:05:55 Marshall T. Vandegrift wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You can probably get it to upload to launchpad with a bzr push
>
> That actually is what I'd tried the second time when it claimed success.
> The earlier FUBAR branch must have confused it.  In any case, the branch
> exists now!  And there was much rejoicing...
>
> And the branch has the "ugly-printing" code I said I was going to try.
> To all appearances, it works great.  It works so well, in fact, that
> after ugly-printing LIT-derived markup which doesn't pretty-print well
> with the default lxml parser, I am able to pretty-print it cleanly.  So
> perhaps the solution to pretty-printing LIT markup is first
> ugly-printing it.
>
> On a down note, I just figured out -- and I'm not sure why it took so
> long -- that MSReader supports an almost unbelievably limited subset of
> CSS.  The key limitation is that it supports absolutely no contextual
> selectors: one tag, class, or ID is all you get.  Full-and-complete LIT
> support will require munging all CSS information into a single class per
> element which specifies absolutely everything.  I'm perfectly willing to
> leave that for later though.
>
> -Marshall
>
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