Border resolution question

["Kathleen Marszalek" <kmarszal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the following FOT valid?:

<table>
<table.before-column-border border-present="true"/>
...
<table-cell column-number="1" ...>
<table-cell.before-column-border border-present="false"/>
...

The DSSSL specification states that:

    "border-priority: is an integer that determines how conflicts between
border specifications are resolved. When there are two table-border flow
objects that apply to a particular segment of a border, then the one that
has the larger priority shall be used. It shall be an error if there are two
such table-borders that have the same priority but are not identical. "

Now, in the above example there are two border flow objects applied to the
same border segment, they have same prority, and ... are they different
because they differ by the characteristic of "border-present", or are they
identical but one is missing and the other not?  How to interpret the
standard?

Kathleen









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