"Andrew n marshall" <amarshal@xxxxxxx> writes:


> There are a couple of thing I have not been able to figure out about XSL and I
> would appreciate any help people have to offer.
> 
> First off, are the attributes specified on the elements corresponding to flow
> objects limited to the characteristics of the flow object's class?
> If the answer to the above is 'no', then I assume that the characteristics are
> applied to/inherited by the descendants of the flow object.  Is this correct?
> For example, in appendix A of the XSL proposal to the W3C, the characteristic
> 'font-family-name' is applied to the top level object 'scroll', but the DSSSL
> specification does not declare the characteristic of the class nor declare an
> super-class for Scroll.  Perhaps this answers my question, but I would like to
> make sure I am not missing anything.

If you look at either the DSSSL or DSSSL-O specs (pointers below) you
will find documentation of flow-objects and characteristics which
distinguishes inherited and non-inherited characteristics.  The former
can be specified on any flow object, and are . . . inherited.
`font-family-name' is inherited.

Hope this helps,

ht

DSSSL: ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/
DSSSL-O: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/dsssl/dssslo/do960816.htm

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