- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:31:23 +0100
- To: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:34:49 +0100, Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote: > 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. I think this is ok. > 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]. I thought we had agreed to not reference HTML4 for the semantics of the pseudo-attributes. > 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. I think this is fine, although I'd also be fine with specifying the order. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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