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Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > This is very clear :-). It is exactly this sort of thing that concerns me. > It's not that it's intrinsically difficult, but: > - a it's easy for someone to overlook when writing an *application*. > (Remember that - at present - inheritance is implemented by the application. > - *every* application - potentially - has to consider whether > 'inheritance' applies to it. It may decide it doesn't need to worry, but > the author of the documents may assume that all applications are > 'inheritance-aware'. This will certainly not be true. > - the word 'inheritance' is understood differently by different SGML/XML > experts and therefore may lead to differences in implementation. We can implement attribute inheritance by SAX or other event-driven API's (e.g., XML in perl). We only have to introduce one method of the class DocumentHandler. setInheritedAttributes(String) This sets names of inherited attributes. By default, "xml:lang" and "xml:space" are inherited. An attributeList (the second argument for startElement) now contains attribute-value pairs for inherited attributes. Does such an API cover your concern? Of course, this has to become namespace-aware. That is, the argument of setInheritedAttribute should be a pair of URI and local part. Does this cause troubles to your implementation? > Paul Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata@a... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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