Re: Syntax for specifying "structured" fo property values

[Stephen Deach <sdeach@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have requested that this issue be reviewed by the WG's FO group.


At 15:39 1999-09-21 GMT, you wrote:
>The current XSL WD has very little to say about the syntax that is to
>be used for specifying the values of non-simple properties. In fact,
>the only thing I could find in the entire spec is the example given in
>3.6 for the space properties:
>
> space-before.minimum="2.0pt"
> space-before.maximum="4.0pt"
> ...
>
>But what about other structured properties? For example, what about
>play-during? If the value is a simple URL, the syntax seems obvious:
>
> play-during="http://www.foo.com/bar.au";
>
>What if I want to specify the "mix" or "repeat" modifiers as well? I
>suppose I could extend the pattern used by space:
>
> play-during.url="http://www.foo.com/bar.au";
> play-during.mix="true"
>
>But since the modifiers are optional, does this mean that
>"play-during" and "play-during.url" should both be allowed as
>attribute names in the XSL result tree?
>
>And what about the font property? It seems that there is no way to
>specify this without the use of nested quotation marks:
>
> font="12pt/14pt 'Times New Roman', serif"
>
>-Steve Schafer
>
>
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>

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