- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:34:49 -0500
- To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-stylesheet-comments/2009Dec/ 0002 "is there any normative section that describes how a user agent is to interpret the [pseudo-attribute] values?" and "what is the interpretation of the order of the links?" First, I don't think this AssocSS spec should get into interpreting the PA values normatively. Likewise, the interpretation of the order of links should be left to the application (and may, in fact, differ for different stylesheet languages). So I think the short answer to the first question is "no" and to the second question is "not our problem." Not that I'm suggesting we say that. My suggestion is to replace the last paragraph of section 4 with the following two paragraphs (underscores indicate where linking-to-defns and such sort of markup needs to be added): An _xml-stylesheet processor_ passes the _parsing result_ on to the _application_ which is responsible for interpreting the _parsing result_ and acting on that information. The semantics of the various _pseudo-attributes_ beyond the semantics indicated above (directly and by reference to another specification) follows that defined for the corresponding attribute of the HTML 4.0 <LINK REL="stylesheet">[HTML40]. Any links to style sheets that are specified externally to the document (e.g., Link headers in some versions of HTTP [RFC2068]) are considered to create associations that occur before the associations specified by the xml-stylesheet processing instructions. The _application_ is responsible for taking all associations and--possibly depending on the details of the associations (e.g., the language of the associated stylesheets)--determine how, if at all, the order of the associations affects its processing. paul
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