- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:35:00 +0200
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:09:55 +0200, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > I agree that a) we're unlikely to find anything even moderately > forceful that doesn't put some browsers or other processors on the > back foot; b) we are pretty much free to decide what's most correct > and useful here. > > It's not obvious to me that interoperability is helped by disjunctive > MUST (or for that matter SHOULD) clauses. I'm inclined to think that > we're not doing anyone any favours by defining a recovery behaviour in > the duplicate PA case. So I'd propose > > Duplicate pseudo-attributes are an error. The xml-stylesheet > processor MUST process the xml-stylesheet as if none of the > pseudo-attributes which share a name were present. > > This will lead to user-useful behaviour in all cases except > duplication of the href PA, I think. This would be different behavior than both HTML and XML. In HTML, the first attribute is used and the rest with the same name are ignored. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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