Anyone have a recommendation for a tool (Perl script would be ideal) to
do the following:

- Take a CSS file and merge any @import statements.

- Whitespace compress and comment-strip the CSS

- Be reliable!  i.e. it should take substantial commercial-scale CSS
files and process them reliably, without introducing further sources of
error.

Ideally it would also do the following:

- Have some means (embedded flag or whatever) to leave a single
version-control comment at the head.

- Either understand, or be controllable by embedded flags so as to not
disturb things like the Tantek Celik hack.


I suspect I'm going to have to write it, but it would be nice to find a
pointer to a pre-existing one.  Thanks for any suggestions.

TopStyle pro has some features like this in the 'style sweeper' menu...
worth checking out the free trial to see if it does exactly what you are
looking for.

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Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelistadesign.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions


<dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone have a recommendation for a tool (Perl script would be ideal) to
> do the following:
>
> - Take a CSS file and merge any @import statements.
>
> - Whitespace compress and comment-strip the CSS
>
> - Be reliable!  i.e. it should take substantial commercial-scale CSS
> files and process them reliably, without introducing further sources of
> error.
>
> Ideally it would also do the following:
>
> - Have some means (embedded flag or whatever) to leave a single
> version-control comment at the head.
>
> - Either understand, or be controllable by embedded flags so as to not
> disturb things like the Tantek Celik hack.
>
>
> I suspect I'm going to have to write it, but it would be nice to find a
> pointer to a pre-existing one.  Thanks for any suggestions.
>