Re: More thoughts on multiple style specifications (was Re: SGML to HTML with jade?)

[Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Resending]

From: Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Jun 1997 08:33:08 -0400
Message-ID: <ubu4tlf23.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Maybe this is pointing towards a need for a new feature in the DSSSL
> architecture.  Suppose in addition to a use attribute on a
> style-specification, there was a, say, "combine" attribute whose value was
> a list of IDREFS like "use", but which differed from "use" in that the
> referenced style-specifications would be considered as belonging to the
> same part as the referencing style-specifications, so that construction
> rules in the referencing style-specification wouldn't override construction
> rules in the referenced style-specification.

I think that would be very useful.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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