Re: [CSS2.1] Counters nesting

On Thursday 16 June 2005 03:48, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Wednesday 2005-06-15 18:40 -0700, L. David Baron wrote:
> > Your "should be" statements don't make sense.  The declaration 'content:
> > counter(item) "," counters(item, ".")' can only produce results of the
> > form "x,y.z" if x is equal to z, since the last part of the counters()
> > is the same as what counter() produces.
>
> A better way of saying what I was trying (badly) to say there is:
>
> counter(item) is *always* a final substring of counters(item, ".").
> (Not necessarily a proper substring, though, since when only one counter
> named "item" is in scope, they're the same.)
>

I think I just confused myself here. I had for some reason gotten the 
impression that counter nesting had been limited to children now. 
Fortunately that is not the case.

`Allan