- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:43:42 -0500
- To: lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk
- Cc: cwilso@microsoft.com, www-style@w3.org
>> LI,B=4 ; All <B> elements that are the 4th <B> to occur >> within an <LI> >> LI=2,B=1 ; The first <B> inside the second <LI> in the >> document > >These look fragile. They may suit the purposes of TEI, but the stylesheet >breaks if I add an intervening element. For dynamic documents that are >often revised, this looks like a problem. Anything based on positioning within a tree is fragile, and in such cases, it would be better to hook the style onto an attribute, or through a more general name like "LI,B" (which references a class of <B> elements). That does not mean they are not useful though. I think you'll find that in the general case, people will not use such things anyway. In EBT's DynaText, for example, it is *very* rare to see people setting a style for one particular element, even though it is possible.
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