Re: FO. Is XSL FO realy XML? Re: attributes ordering

This refers to the order the sub-properties are specified within the
border="..." property itself. The entire border="..." argument string is
treated as a single property by XSL.

If one sets 'border' and 'border-start' and 'border-start-style' on the
same FO, they should be processed from least-qualified to most-qualified
(which happens to be the order that they are shown -- thus border sets up
tenative values for all sides, then border-start replaces the settings for
the start edge, finally border-start-style overrides the individual style
setting on the start-edge.)

There are other "order-of-interpretation" issues which we are attempting to
identify. For example, font-size must be evaluated first, since EM-based
sizes depend on it.

We need to add a section to the specification describing this.



At 22:11 1999-09-22 -0700, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
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><WD>
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>5.4 Common Border, Padding, and Background Properties
>....
>
>5.4.31 border
>5.4.31.1 Allowed Values
><'border-top-width'> || <'border-style'>> || <color> 
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>5.4.31.2 Description
>A shorthand property for setting border the properties of a block-area or
inline-area.
>
>The "border" property is a shorthand property for setting the same width,
color, 
>and style for all four borders, top, bottom, left, and right, of a box. 
>Unlike the shorthand "margin" and "padding" properties, the "border" 
>property cannot set different values on the four borders. To do so, 
>one or more of the other border properties must be used. 
>Since, to some extent, the properties have overlapping functionality, 
>the order in which the rules are specified is important. 
></WD>
>
>The last line requires processing to rely on the attribute order.
>( 'border'  is actualy attribute ).
>
>Rgds.Paul.
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>> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:14:41 -0400, you wrote:
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>> >if the order is important, how can I keep the attribute order instead
>> >of using @*?
>> 
>> Attributes are intrinsically unordered. If you are doing some
>> processing that relies on the attributes being in some particular
>> order, you are going to have to rethink what you're doing.
>> 
>> -Steve
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