The Libcroco project is an effort to build a generic Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit that can be used by GNOME applications in need of CSS support.

• A parser module that provides
  • A SAC like api. SAC stands for Simple Api for CSS. SAC is an event driven api wich resembles SAX in the xml world.
  • A CSSOM like api. CSSOM stands for Cascading Style Sheet Object Model.
  The libcroco parser implements the CSS Level 2 specification, the CSS forward compatibility rules and the CSS cascading rules.
• A CSS2 selection engine
  Given an xml element node (that obviously comes from an xml document) and a stylesheet cascade, the Libcroco selection engine can evaluate the css selectors of the cascade and return the style properties associated to the xml element node.

  Note that the xml manipulation toolkit used by the libcroco selection engine at the moment is libxml2.

• An XML/CSS layout/rendering engine
  Libroco's rendering engine provides a widget that knows how to render an xml document by interpreting the style information present in an associated style sheet. This is being developped now and will take some time to be fully useable.

Libcroco is delivered under the terms of the GNU Lesser http://www.gnu.org/licenses/General Public License. Go to the GNU licences info page to get more information about the LGPL. Libcroco is developped under GNUL/Linux.