- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 17:50:29 -0500
- To: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- CC: "'neil@bigpic.com'" <neil@bigpic.com>, www-style@w3.org
Chris Wilson wrote: > If they're cyclic, they include their parent (or themselves) and vice-versa. > I would propose the CSS2 spec declare that > > "Treating stylesheets as a tree of stylesheet nodes (the document being the > root) if an imported stylesheet has the same URI as one of its direct > ancestors, that import should be ignored." I'd concur with this. That is also what I've implemented and I suspect the only practical solution to cycles in the DAG. >... > I believe only the cyclic problem should be addressed - multiple importing > may have some uses. Multiple imports should definitely remain allowed. Imports out of order of the contents of a stylesheet probably should remain disallowed as they needlessly complicate things. Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/SSO http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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