Re: Styling conflict

Since this thread is now about CSS and not SVG, I have shunted it over to 
www-style. It comes from www-svg originally.

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Chris Lilley wrote:
>>
>> This is handled in the CSS2.0 errata [1], which agree with CSS2.1.  So 
>> there's no ambiguity at this point, as far as I can see.
> 
> Once they become normative, which is done by publishing a second 
> edition; which the CSS WG does not plan to do since CSS 2.1 is the 
> replacement, so CSS2 is abandoned. Hence the problem.

CSS2.1 _is_ the second edition. That's what the ".1" bit means. It's short 
for "CSS Level 2 Revision 1".

This is quite clearly stated right at the top of the spec:

# Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1
# CSS 2.1 Specification
 -- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

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