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Re: Inheritance/defaulting of attributes

• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 04:10:07 -0400

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> Is this seen as a sufficiently general mechanism in XML that it is worth
> creating a DTD-independent engine for this? 

This semantic can be expressed in the stylesheet language:

(element p 
	(make paragraph 
		font-color: (inherited-attribute-string "COLOR")))

I think that this is valid DSSSL code. I don't see much benefit in
moving this semantic into the markup language itself. There are others I
would add before this.

 Paul Prescod



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• References:
  • Re: AFs and the DPH
    • From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...>
  • Re: AFs and the DPH
    • From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@i...>
  • Re: AFs and the DPH
    • From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
  • Inheritance/defaulting of attributes
    • From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...>

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