Re: XHTML2 <style> questions

• From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
• Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:51:38 +0200
• To: Rick Beton <richard.beton@roke.co.uk>
• Cc: www-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4294BB2A.2070605@students.cs.uu.nl>

Rick Beton wrote:
> 3. it appears from ref[1] that external stylesheets are linked via
>        <?xml-stylesheet?> and
>        <style> containing @import. Is it sensible to propose that 
> <style> should accept a src attribute in a similar way to <script> ?  
> The rationale would be that it would be more consistent to do so.

I don’t think that’s a good idea... Why duplicate the functionality of 
<?xml-stylesheet?>? That will only cause non-XHTML2 viewers to not apply 
the given styling... If you use consistency as a rationale, you should 
also create an <?xml-script?> processing instruction :).


~Grauw

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