Do you know about the sass package?

[gaborcsardi]

AFAICT it can parse CSS files. katana seems to be somewhat unmaintained TBH.

[hrbrmstr]

As the Readme says, this was a PoC for dr wilke. I kinda thought the sass pkg cld do it as well but didn’t poke at it.

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[clauswilke]

I'll take a look at what the sass pkg can do. Alternatively, I think the right way forward with katana would be to not treat it as an external dependency but to just take all the code, integrate into a package, and start maintaining. Certainly beats writing a flex based parser from scratch.

[clauswilke]

I may have been overly optimistic about katana. It doesn't include the bison/flex source files, so it's essentially unmaintainable. The maintainers have ignored requests to provide these files for about two years.

I looked at sass also. I don't see how it can be used to parse CSS. At least, this functionality does not seem to be exported via R. If I'm missing something I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

[gaborcsardi]

I looked at sass also. I don't see how it can be used to parse CSS. At least, this functionality does not seem to be exported via R. If I'm missing something I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

The C lib they use can most probably parse CSS, so maybe open an issue to see if they want a PR?

[gaborcsardi]

Btw. there is also http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/libcss/ but that does not seems to be an easy thing to wrap, either.