Re: bug in jade??

Subject: Re: bug in jade??
From: Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:03:40 -0400
Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > with modular docbook.dsl by Norman Walsh style-sheet 
> 
> I'm going to be that this is the problem. Construction rules in one part
> of a style-specification are more specific than any construction rule in
> a subsequent part except when a mode is in use. That means that a 
> 
> (default ....)
> 
> rule overrides every rule in a following style-specification rule (for
> example). I could see how this would be non-intuitive in situations and 
> perhaps DSSSL should give you more control. You can use general text entities
> instead of independent DSSSL style sheet documents to concatenate rules 
> without changing their relative specifity.

Ouch.  Maybe I should modularize only by PE, then.  Taranov,
I'll give your example more thought tomorrow.

[ Note, I'm just about to announce 0.82, which I finished
earlier this morning, so that won't address this problem. ]

--norm


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