- From: Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@enst.fr>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:04:49 +0200
- To: Antoine Quint <ml@graougraou.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, Antoine Quint wrote: > On 26 avr. 04, at 16:22, Cyril Concolato wrote: > >> This may be a stupid question but where in the spec is it said that >> when an attribute is not present, its value should be inherited >> instead of using its default value. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#SpecifyingPaint > > "black" is the "initial" value if there is nothing else inherited. > Otherwise, it is the inherited value. This sentence helps a lot. I think it should be in the spec. My understanding of the spec as it is was, wrongly, that the initial value was the default value, that is the value if no attribute was specified. Regards, Cyril -- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris Dept. Comelec 46, rue Barrault 75013 Paris Tel: +33145817991 Fax: +33145804036
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