What's the correct DTD for XSL?

["Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's some correspondence pertaining to what I thought was an error in the
XSLT spec:

> At 15:25 1999-07-30 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> >In Sec. 6.3 (Defining Template Rules), the example contains the line
> >   <fo:inline-sequence font-weight="bold">
> >However, the XSL DTD indicates that a font-weight should be attached to
> >a block, not an inline-sequence.  The only attribute of an
> >inline-sequence is `id'.  (I believe I'm working from the latest version
> >of the XSL spec.)
> >
> >Paul Abrahams

In response, Stephen Deach wrote:

> Thank you for your comments.
>   Actually, the example is correct. The font-weight property is inherited,
> thus can be attached to any fo above fo:block or fo:character (which use
> the property).
>   We have gotten a number of requests to clarify/correct the DTD. We used
> the DTD to identify where properties are USED, not where thay maybe
> assigned. The common uses of DTDs do the latter, so we will fix this in the
> next draft.
>
> ---SDeach
>    Editor - XSL (Formatting) Specification

That raises the question: what is the correct DTD for XSL?  Would it explicitly
include all the attributes of an <fo:block> in an <fo:inline-sequence> (plus a
great multitude of similarly situated attributes)?  Or is the question of
validating an XSLT stylesheet as an XML document simply uninteresting to most
members of this community?

Paul Abrahams





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