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Here's some correspondence pertaining to what I thought was an error in the XSLT spec: > At 15:25 1999-07-30 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: > >In Sec. 6.3 (Defining Template Rules), the example contains the line > > <fo:inline-sequence font-weight="bold"> > >However, the XSL DTD indicates that a font-weight should be attached to > >a block, not an inline-sequence. The only attribute of an > >inline-sequence is `id'. (I believe I'm working from the latest version > >of the XSL spec.) > > > >Paul Abrahams In response, Stephen Deach wrote: > Thank you for your comments. > Actually, the example is correct. The font-weight property is inherited, > thus can be attached to any fo above fo:block or fo:character (which use > the property). > We have gotten a number of requests to clarify/correct the DTD. We used > the DTD to identify where properties are USED, not where thay maybe > assigned. The common uses of DTDs do the latter, so we will fix this in the > next draft. > > ---SDeach > Editor - XSL (Formatting) Specification That raises the question: what is the correct DTD for XSL? Would it explicitly include all the attributes of an <fo:block> in an <fo:inline-sequence> (plus a great multitude of similarly situated attributes)? Or is the question of validating an XSLT stylesheet as an XML document simply uninteresting to most members of this community? Paul Abrahams XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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