Action Item: Editors to write some clarification text explaining inheritance stops at nodes

Hi Felix,

Here's my suggestion for our action item

	Editors to write some clarification text explaining inheritance
stops at nodes 

recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/12/13-i18nits-minutes.html#action10

Let me know what you think.

I would suggest to add the note to 2.2 (Overriding and Inheritance). On the
one hand that's where
we first extensively talk about inheritance. On the other hand, its
non-normative.

Cheers,
Christian
===

Caveat Related to Inheritance

Inheritance is applied only after every other method of establishing a value
for a data category has been exhausted. Put differently: Values specified by
rules
are given precedence over inherited values. 

Accordingly, the content of the "code" element in the example below is
marked as
"not translatable" (since the value specified in the "translateRule" for
"code"
receives precedence over the inherited value from the local rule on the
"par" element).

<myDoc xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its">
 <head>
  <its:rules its:version="1.0">
   <its:translateRule selector="//code" translate="no"/>
   <its:translateRule selector="//par" translate="no"/>
  </its:rules>
 </head>
 <body>
  <par its:translate="yes">This is the paragraph 2. It has some
<code>special code 2</code>.</par>
 </body>
</myDoc>

This behaviour is in line with  CSS: a global rule like em { color: blue ; }
is overridden by
<em style ="color: blue;">. However, for the <em> element it is not
overridden by a local rule like
<p style ="color: blue;"> ...<em>.

Received on Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:38:21 UTC