RE: Typo in stroke-type style property

I remember that this was discussed... my main concern is that the
current wording (or our previous decisions) seem inconsistent.

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From: public-webcgm-wg-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-webcgm-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Lofton Henderson
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:17 PM
To: WebCGM WG
Subject: RE: Typo in stroke-type style property


One preliminary comment/observation:

There is actually a direct contradiction about stroke-type.  The table
[1] says stroke-type can be a name or a negative integer.  The text says
valid values are the defined integers (and it omits negative integers.)

[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/WebCGM21-DOM.html#setStyl
eProperty

There is some history to this issue, and I'll try to dig it out.  I
remember us discussing the name-versus-integer issue.  And I remember
extensively re-editing all of the new SP table/text stuff to reflect our
resolutions.  

(**I think** that our intention was to go towards the simple
integer-only solution, for those new SPs for which integers make sense.
If that's true, any contrary implication is due to my bad editing, and
the stroke-type is clearly an editing goof.  I recall inserting the
"corresponding to..." wording, and recall the intent as simply
explaining the valid-value list [integers] in more user-friendly terms,
so that one did not have to pick up a copy of CGM:1999 to understand the
integer valid values.)

More later.

-Lofton.

At 10:59 AM 1/7/2009 -0500, Bezaire, Benoit wrote:


	I'm reading the on the new style properties, and I see some
inconsistencies.
	 
	It's unclear with the current spec which style properties are
set by a name or integer value. At the moment it seems like stroke-type
can be set using "solid" or "1". 
	But other style properties like interior-style and hatch-index
only seem to be settable using it's integer value. I think some
clarification and consistency is needed.
	 
	While it's still unclear if PTC will implement
getStyleProperty(), I wonder if the implementation has to return the
exact same string that was used to set the attribute. 
	 
	Example for stroke-type: setStyleProperty("stroke-type",
"solid"), getStyleProperty("stroke-type") returns 1.
	Example for stroke-weight: setStyleProperty("stroke-weight",
"200%"), getStyleProperty("stroke-weight") returns 0.5 (assuming
original was 0.25).
	 
	Thoughts?
	Benoit.
	
	
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	From: Bezaire, Benoit 
	Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:26 AM
	To: WebCGM WG
	Subject: Typo in stroke-type style property
	
	Current wording says: "[...] Valid values are: integers 1-6
(which correspond to solid, dash, dot, dash-dot, dash-dot-dot)", the
"1-6" should be replaced by "1-5".
	 
	Benoit.