Re: AssocSS issue holman-1 and holman-2

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:55:05 +0100, Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Simon Pieters [mailto:simonp@opera.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, 2010 January 14 8:31
>> To: Grosso, Paul; public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: AssocSS issue holman-1 and holman-2
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:34:49 +0100, Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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?"


>> I thought we had agreed to not reference HTML4 for the semantics of the
>> pseudo-attributes.
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> I'm not sure what I think here.  I thought Henry said on yesterday's
> call that we should put back a reference to HTML 4.0.  Or maybe we
> need to phrase it some other way.
>
> I'm open to suggestions that address Ken's (first) issue.

I think we should leave it out of scope for this spec. We can say  
explicitly that it's out of scope and left to other specs to define.


>> I think this is fine, although I'd also be fine with specifying the
>> order.
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> We are specifying an order.

We just say that document-external links are before PIs, but we don't say  
what the internal order of the PIs is.


> What we can't do is tell the application
> what the order means.

Agreed.


> In some cases, it will mean to use all of them,
> and in other cases, it might mean to use the first and ignore the rest
> or something else.
>
> paul
>


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Simon Pieters
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