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Re:AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS by janv on Monday June 13, 2011 @08:20AM (#2648768)
These abstract metalanguages are still somewhat limited by the underlying base of HTML and CSS. Some things simply can't be accomplished with CSS, no matter how many SASS macros you write (e.g. reparent an element), or you'll just end up with lot of code to do tasks which would be simple with HSS.

I believe that point of AXR is to replace this underlying base, with something more suitable for web applications. You could still use a metalanguage on top of it (maybe with some tweaking) - you can write XML using HAML anyway.

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Re:AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS by Joeri on Monday June 13, 2011 @11:15AM (#2649280)
What do you mean by reparenting an element if not the nesting example given on the SASS homepage?
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Re:AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS by janv on Monday June 13, 2011 @11:38AM (#2649407)
In presentation - http://www.slideshare.net/veosotano/axr-presentation-betabee... - slides 12 and 13, including new elements creation (http://axr.vg/spec/chapter/55). Didn't find anything on parent property in spec, though. Nesting is also planned (slide 15)
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Re:AXR: A better(?) alternative to HTML+CSS by veosotano on Monday June 13, 2011 @11:53AM (#2649466)
Sorry about that. It's not fully fleshed out yet. Are you interested in helping us figure out how to make the reparenting syntax as nice as possible? If so, I think the mailing list would be the best place for that... :)
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