ANN: cssutils 0.9.5a1

Christof Hoeke cthedot at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 18:34:08 CET 2008


what is it
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A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets.

main changes since 0.9.4b1
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for full details for 0.9.5a1 see the relevant CHANGELOG: 
http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.5a1/CHANGELOG.txt

A few (minor) non-backwards compatible changes have been made, please 
see 
http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.5a1/documentation/migrate.txt 
for migration help.

0.9.5a1
     + **API CHANGE**: ``Property.name`` is now the same as 
``Property.normalname`` which is DEPRECATED now. To access the literal 
name (the value which was available in ``name`` until now) use 
``Property.literalname``. For most cases where a property name is used 
the new behaviour makes more sense, therefor the change.

         **Do not use ``normalname`` anymore, it will probably be 
removed for release 1.0.**

     + **API CHANGE**: iterating over ``css.CSSStyleDelcaration`` yields 
now *effective* properties only and not *all* properties set in the 
declaration. E.g. from ``color: red; c\olor: green`` only one Property 
is returned which has the value ``green``. To retrieve *all* properties 
use ``CSSStyleDeclaration.getProperties(all=True)``. Reason for this 
change is that for most cases the new default makes more sense.

     - **FEATURE**: ``css.CSSStyleDelcaration`` supports ``in`` now. 
Expected is a Property or a name of a property which is checked if 
already in the style declaration

     - **FEATURE**: ``css.Selector`` has a **readonly** property 
``specificity`` now which is calculated as described at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#specificity

     - **FEATURE**: Added ``css.CSSStyleDeclaration.getProperty(name, 
normalize=True)`` which returns the effective Property object for ``name``.

     - FEATURE: Implemented 
http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-23, URI may be 
``URL(...)`` or ``u\r\6c(...)`` now

     + **BUGFIX**: Priority of Properties is acknowledged by all methods 
of ``css.CSSStylesDeclaration`` now.


license
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cssutils is published under the LGPL.

download
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for download options for see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/

cssutils needs Python 2.4 or higher (tested with Python 2.5 on Vista only)


bug reports, comments, etc are very much appreciated!

thanks, Christof


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