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The object of this assignment is to apply a Cascading Style Sheet to an XML document. You will need to check the results in a standards-compliant browser, such as Mozilla or the latest version of Internet Explorer. See a screen shot of a possible solution
The movies.xml file contains
data excerpted from Halliwell's Film Guide, © Leslie
Halliwell 1981. You'll note that it refers to a file named
movies.css; replace that with the name of your
stylesheet, which should follow the normal naming conventions.
You need to send me only the .css file.
And, yes, I did write a Relax NG file to validate it, because I just knew someone would demand it.
Because this is not an HTML file, there are no presentation properties associated with any of the elements in the movie file. Your stylesheet must provide specifications for every element whose content you want displayed as anything other than inline text.
The following elements must be block-level elements:
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Unless specified otherwise, the entire document should be displayed in 14 point Arial, Helvetica, or generic sans-serif font. The entire document should have a 12 point margin.
Movies should be separated from each other by a two-pixel solid black
line. (Hint: border-bottom) Add appropriate space
around the line so it doesn't appear too close to the text.
In the heading, the movie title and rating should be in 18 point font; the stars should be red. All the other information in the heading should be set in 12 point type.
The synopsis should be indented from both sides of the page, and surrounded with a one-pixel solid black border. Each paragraph in the synopsis should have a one-em indent on its first line (hint: see bottom of page 129).
If a synopsis has a <ref> to another movie,
that reference must appear in blue text, in italics, with a
light yellow background, which has a hex code of #ffffcc.
Each of the writer, director, photography, and music credits should
be preceded by the appropriate name. (Hint: use the :before
pseudo-class; see page 129.) Some of these have been marked with
an attribute special="yes", indicating a contribution
of a particularly high standard, and should appear in boldface.
The words The Cast: must appear,
underlined, before the list of the actors. Use the specifier
text-decoration: underline; to achieve this
effect. If you wish,
you may also make these words appear in italics.
The actors who have type="lead" specified should
be set in 125% of normal size, and those actors who are
special="yes" should appear in green, but not bold.
The <reviews> element must be preceded by the word
Reviews:, underlined. Each review must
have left and right margins of two ems. [This paragraph fixed; thanks to Puru Naidu for catching the error.]
The content of the <reviewer> element
must be right justified; reviewers of
type="periodical" must appear in italics.
Set margins and padding, and line height to create a layout that is pleasing to the eye (not too crowded, not too much empty space).
You may use the gender attribute in any way that makes
sense to you, or you may choose to ignore it altogether.