[DAS2] new stylesheet syntax
Andrew Dalke
dalke at dalkescientific.com
Mon May 1 02:14:10 EDT 2006
I've been thinking about the stylesheet document format. I've
changed it somewhat. Here's what the latest version looks like
<STYLESHEET>
<STYLE
uri="http://biodas.org/das2/bos_taurus/Dec2006/type/five_prime_UTR"
zoom="high">
<BOX fgcolor="red" />
<LABEL fgcolor="black" />
</STYLE>
<STYLE
uri="http://biodas.org/das2/bos_taurus/Dec2006/type/five_prime_UTR"
zoom="medium">
<BOX fgcolor="red" />
</STYLE>
<STYLE
uri="http://biodas.org/das2/bos_taurus/Dec2006/type/five_prime_UTR"
zoom="low">
<LINE fgcolor="red" />
</STYLE>
<STYLE
uri="http://biodas.org/das2/bos_taurus/Dec2006/type/strong_gene">
<BOX fgcolor="black" border_style="solid" />
</STYLE>
<STYLE
uri="http://biodas.org/das2/bos_taurus/Dec2006/type/moderate_gene">
<BOX fgcolor="black" border_style="dotted" />
</STYLE>
<STYLE uri="http://biodas.org/das2/bos_taurus/Dec2006/type/weak_gene">
<BOX fgcolor="gray" border_style="dotted" />
</STYLE>
</STYLESHEET>
The change is that the attributes in the <STYLE> element are only
used as selectors, that is, fields which select feature types. I've
moved the 'width', 'height', and 'bump' elements to a <SET> element.
The core of the schema looks like this.
style = element STYLE {
# These are selectors.
attribute uri { text },
attribute zoom { "high" | "medium" | "low" }?,
set_element,
# Must specify a glyph, may specify a label. Can be in
# either order.
((glyph, label?) | (label, glyph))
}
# Set default depiction properties
set_element = element SET {
height?,
width?,
bump { "yes" | "no" }?
}
If you hadn't looked at the previous schema, the height, width,
and bump attributes were in the STYLE attributes along with 'fgcolor'
and 'bgcolor', which provided defaults for the glyphs and title, but
the latter two could override the defaults.
The main reason for the change is to separate selectors from
the actual style. I got rid of the default fg/bg colors because
Andrew
dalke at dalkescientific.com
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