On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 01:19 -0300, Junk Account wrote:
> Please see http://www.netsnippets.com  .
> The problem? it does not save formatting. 
> Question: Why?

The software wasn't written that way.

> Question: Could it be done?

Yes.

> Question: What would that require, both from XHTML and from CSS?

Nothing they don't provide already, its just data.

Its just a case of the software needing to make use of it.

> Regarding CSS, and at least asuming the page author *has* used it
> whenever possible...can just the relevant rules be extracted? Not just
> the whole document CSS, be it just one sheet or many, but just the
> minimum required for identical reproduction of the selected area?

Yes. The Mozilla/Firefox DOM inspector already demonstrates that its
easy to show what CSS styles are applied to an element and in what
order.


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