Inheritance/defaulting of attributes

[Paul Prescod]

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> Is this seen as a sufficiently general mechanism in XML that it is worth
> creating a DTD-independent engine for this? 

This semantic can be expressed in the stylesheet language:

(element p 
	(make paragraph 
		font-color: (inherited-attribute-string "COLOR")))

I think that this is valid DSSSL code. I don't see much benefit in
moving this semantic into the markup language itself. There are others I
would add before this.

 Paul Prescod



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