Re: Specification problem - referential style chaining.

Ah, I misunderstood you. In any case, let's decode your example a bit more
carefully:

>>             <style id="s1" tts:color="brown" />
>>             <style id="s2" style="s1" tts:color="black"/>
>>             <style id="s3" style="s2" />

s1 is easy, and it means:

s1 -> { <tts:color,brown> }

s2 on the other hand, is derived as follows:

s2 -> LEFT-PRECENDENCE < { <tts:color,black> }, s1 >
   -> LEFT-PRECENDENCE < { <tts:color,black> }, { <tts:color,brown> } >
   -> { tts:color,black }

[N.B. Section 8.4.1 says "Style properties associated by inline styling are
afforded a higher priority than all other forms of style association.", so
that in resolving s2, the inline style tts:color has precedence over
referential styling style="s1".]

s3 -> s2
   -> { tts:color,black }

We get black, and not brown. So perhaps there is no problem here.

G.

On 12/7/08 7:19 AM, "Sean Hayes" <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com> wrote:

> I wasn't talking about lexical order of elements, but of chains with multiple
> links. In a single chain the last referenced style would be the most distant
> from the affected element; which is wrong.
> 
> Sean Hayes
> Media Accessibility Strategist
> Accessibility Business Unit
> Microsoft
> 
> Office:  +44 118 909 5867,
> Mobile: +44 7875 091385
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn A. Adams [mailto:gadams@xfsi.com]
> Sent: 06 December 2008 22:49
> To: Sean Hayes; Public TTWG List
> Subject: Re: Specification problem - referential style chaining.
> 
> I disagree. The lexical order of the style element in the document should
> have no affect on the order of style resolution in the case of multiple
> style chains. The reason for this is that these style specification chains
> are semantically ordered via id references, and not lexically ordered
> (according to appearance in document order).
> 
> It would also be more difficult for a processor to resolve styles using a
> combination of style id references and the order of appearance of the
> defining element.
> 
> The spec should not be changed.
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
> On 12/6/08 10:01 PM, "Sean Hayes" <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The spec currently says:
>> 
>> " If the same style property is specified in more than one referenced
>> specification, then the last referenced style specification applies, where
>> the
>> order of application starts from the affected element and proceeds to
>> referenced style specifications, and, in turn, to subsequent referenced style
>> specifications."
>> 
>> I don't think this is clear enough on how referential styling is supposed to
>> work.I think it works for cases such as the following:
>> 
>>             <style id="s1" tts:color="brown" />
>>             <style id="s2" tts:color="black"/>
>>             <style id="s3" style="s1 s2" />
>> 
>> An element referencing s3, would have color black.
>> 
>> But in this case:
>>             <style id="s1" tts:color="brown" />
>>             <style id="s2" style="s1" tts:color="black"/>
>>             <style id="s3" style="s2" />
>> 
>> The 'last' referenced style here is s1, and thus an element referencing s3,
>> would have color brown.
>> 
>> This is not my understanding of how it is supposed to work, which is that the
>> order is a linearization of the tree in a depth first pre-order. Such that
>> the
>> 'last' element is black in both cases.
>> 
>> To clarify this I suggest we edit the last sentence to:
>> 
>> where the order of application is a depth first pre-order tree walk starting
>> from the affected element including referenced style specifications, and all
>> subsequent referenced style specifications."
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>>             <style id="s1" tts:color="brown" />
>>             <style id="s2" style="s1" tts:color="black"/>
>>             <style id="s3" tts:color="green" />
>>             <style id="s4" style="s3" tts:color="yellow"/>
>>             <style id="s5" style="s4 s2" tts:color="pink" />
>> 
>>             <p style="s5" tts:color="red">...</p>
>> 
>> The depth first pre order for color here would be:
>>    green, yellow, brown, black, pink, red.
>> 
>> The last and therefore applied color being red.
>> 
>> 
>> Sean Hayes
>> Media Accessibility Strategist
>> Accessibility Business Unit
>> Microsoft
>> 
>> Office:  +44 118 909 5867,
>> Mobile: +44 7875 091385
>> 
>> 
> 
>

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