I need to inline css from a stylesheet in c#.
Like how this works.
http://www.mailchimp.com/labs/inlinecss.php
The css is simple, just classes, no fancy selectors.
I was contemplating using a regex (?<rule>(?<selector>[^{}]+){(?<style>[^{}]+)})+ to strip the rules from the css, and then attempting to do simple string replaces where the classes are called, but some of the html elements already have a style tag, so I'd have to account for that as well.
Is there a simpler approach? Or something already written in c#?
UPDATE - Sep 16, 2010
I've been able to come up with a simple CSS inliner provided your html is also valid xml. It uses a regex to get all the styles in your <style /> element. Then converts the css selectors to xpath expressions, and adds the style inline to the matching elements, before any pre-existing inline style.
Note, that the CssToXpath is not fully implemented, there are some things it just can't do... yet.
CssInliner.cs
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.XPath;
namespace CssInliner
{
public class CssInliner
{
private static Regex _matchStyles = new Regex("\\s*(?<rule>(?<selector>[^{}]+){(?<style>[^{}]+)})",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
| RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
| RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace
| RegexOptions.Compiled
);
public List<Match> Styles { get; private set; }
public string InlinedXhtml { get; private set; }
private XElement XhtmlDocument {