removing advanced functionality

Author: howcom

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-<h2>Character substitution</h2>
-
-<p>It is sometimes convenient to replace one character with another
-without changing the source document. For example, the apostrophe
-character is easily found on keyboards, but in print it is often
-better to replace it with a quotation character. The 'text-replace'
-property offers a way to perform the replacement in the style sheet.
-
-<p class='issue'>It this something CSS should do? Some think it's OK to use CSS for non-stylistic purposes, some think this <em>is</em> is a stylistic purpose, and some think this is not stylistic and should therefore be kept outside of CSS.
-
-<h3>The 'text-replace' property</h3>
-
-<table class=propdef>
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Name:</em>
-      <td><dfn>text-replace</dfn>
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Value:</em>
-    <td> [&lt;string> &lt;string>]+  | none 
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Initial:</em>
-      <td>none
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Applies to:</em>
-      <td>all elements
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Inherited:</em>
-      <td>yes <span class='issue'>or?</span>
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Percentages:</em>
-      <td>N/A
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Media:</em>
-      <td>visual
-    <tr>
-      <td><em>Computed&nbsp;value:</em>
-      <td>as specified value
-</table>
-
-<p>This property is used to replace all occurrences of a certain
-string with another string in the content of the element. The property
-accepts pairs of strings as value, in addition to the initial ''none''
-value. For each pair of strings, occurrences of the first string in
-the content will be replaced with the second string. If ''none'' is
-specified, no replacements will occur.
-
-<div class="example">
-
-<p>In this example, the apostrophe character is converted to a
-quotation character.
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "'" "\2019" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-<div class="example">
-
-<p>In this example, the string "--" is replaced with the em-dash character:
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "--" "\2014" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-<div class="example">
-
-<p>In this example, the string "..." is replaced with the ellipsis character:
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "..." "\2026" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-<div class="example">
-<p>In this example, all references to 'Soviet Union' are replaced with 'Russia'. 
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "Soviet Union" "Russia" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-<p>Text replacements are applied sequentially. 
-
-<div class="example">
-<p>The two rules below yield the same result. In the first rule all
-'a' characters are converted to 'b'. Subsequently, all 'b' characters
-are converted to 'c'. In the second rule, all 'a' and 'b' characters
-are converted directly to 'c'.
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "a" "b" "b" "c" }
-body { text-replace: "a" "c" "b" "c" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>If text replacements are specified on two elements that have an
-ancestor-descender relationship, only the setting on the youngest
-element is applied.
-
-<div class="example">
-<p>In this example, only the second declaration has any effect on text inside the body element.
-
-<pre>
-html { text-replace: "a" "b" }
-body { text-replace: "c" "d" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>The first string in a pair must have at least one character, while
-the second may be empty. 
-
-<div class="example">
-<p>In this example, all 'a' characters are removed. 
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "a" "" }
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-<p>If the first string of a pair is empty, or if an odd number of
-strings has been specified, the whole value is ignored and no text
-replacements are performed.
-
-<p>This property is evaluated after the 'content' property, and before
-'text-transform'.
-
-<p class="note">This property is very powerful and must be used with
-great care. The purpose of this property is to beautify the
-presentation of text when changing the source document is
-impractical.
-
-<div class=issue>
-
-<p>This property has raised some discussions. Some people think it's much powerful, other thinks it's too weak. Some think it doesn't belong in CSS at all.
-
-<p>One weakness is that it is not able to perform a the commonly requested task of replacing pairs of double quotes with proper quote marks. One way of addressing this would be to add support for regular expressions. For example:
-
-<div class="example">
-<pre class=issue>
-body { text-replace: 's/"([^"]*?)"/&#xAB;$1&#xBB;/g' }
-</pre>
-</div>
-<!-- "-->
-
-<p>Another option is to allow uneven number of strings in the value:
-
-<pre class=issue>
-body { text-replace: '"' '&laquo;' '&raquo;' }
-</pre>
-
-<p>In the example above, the first double quote (") would be replace by "&laquo;", the second would be replaced by "&raquo;" etc. In order for this to work, commas would have to be introduced in order to distinguish between the different sets of replacemenets:
-
-<pre>
-body { text-replace: "Soviet Union" "Russia", '"' '&laquo;' '&raquo;' }
-</pre>
-<!-- "-->
-
-
-<p>Another approach is to select the text to be replaced in the selector:
-
-<pre>
-*::text("Soviet Union") { content: "Russia" }
-</pre>
-
-</div>
-
 
 
 <h2>Image resolution</h2>