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# CSS Validator version 2.0 : How to add CSS properties in this validator ?

In first, you should create your properties.

To do this, You should extend the class CSS.Properties.CssProperty. If you have some macros, see CSS.Properties.ACssCueBefore for an example.

An example for the name of a property : `CSS2.Printing.CssPageBreakBefore`

Then, you should implements the interface org.w3c.css.parser.CssStyle. For an example, you can see org.w3c.css.aural.ACssStyle. In this example, I added aural cascading style sheet to cascading style sheet level 1, so I extends the style Css1Style that implements the CssStyle. Be careful, you must have a public constructor with no parameters in your CssStyle !

An example for the name of your style : `CSS2.Printing.PCssStyle`

Create two configuration properties file :

1. Config.properties

       # My parser config :
       style : CSS2.Printing.PCssStyle
       properties: CSS2Printing.properties
       # Note : the file CSS2Printing.properties should be in your style directory.

       # Activate the CSS2 parser
       extended-parser : true

2. CS2Printing.properties

       # A property
       # Note : if you want to reuse CSS1 properties, you should add all properties !
       #        For an example, see AuralProperties.properties
       page-break-before : CSS2.Printing.CssPageBreakBefore

Now you are ready to parse your properties.

Finally, You should say where the parser can find your properties. This is a sample code to parse your owns properties :

    import java.util.Properties;
    import java.net.URL;

    import org.w3c.css.parser.CssFouffa;
    import org.w3c.css.css.StyleSheetParser;
    import org.w3c.css.css.StyleSheetOrigin;

    import CSS2.Printing.PCssStyle;

    class MyStartUp {

     public static void main(String[] args) {

      Properties properties = new Properties();
      try {
       Properties config = new Properties();

       // try to load the file
       URL url = PCssStyle.class.getResource("CSS2Printing.properties");

       config.load(url.openStream());

       // set the parser
       CssFouffa.loadConfig(config);

      } catch (Exception e) {
       System.err.println("MyStartUp: couldn't load properties");
       System.err.println("  " + e.toString() );
       System.exit(1);
      }

      // now the parser is ready !

      // create a parser
      StyleSheetParser parser = new StyleSheetParser();

      // parse an URL
      parser.parseURL(new URL("http://www.w3.org/Style"), StyleSheetOrigin.AUTHOR);

      // output the result
      StyleSheetGenerator style =
       new StyleSheetGenerator("My example",           // title
                               parser.getStyleSheet(), // get the style sheet
                               "text");                // output format
      style.print(System.out);
     }
    }

There is an example for a new package for CSS2. In this example, I reuse Aural properties.