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CssResource parser is excessively pedantic #246

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The CssResource parser is currently based on the W3C Flute codebase.  While 
this parser gets the 
job done, it is excessively pedantic with respect to commonly-used CSS idioms 
and is functionally a 
black-box.

Most other Java-based CSS parsers lack either robustness (not being able to 
handle recursive 
descent) or flexibility (not being able to easily add extensions to the 
grammer), so I think the 
solution is to develop our own parser.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bobv%google.com@gtempaccount.com on 3 Mar 2009 at 3:05