Dear List,
I have some responses from Paul Grosso to questions about compound
properties.
Peter
Original Message
Subject: Re: Compound datatypes
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:02:38 -0400
From: Paul Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTE
Original Message
Subject: Re: Compound datatypes:
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:17:54 -0500
From: Paul Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xsl-editors
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 12:21 2001 09 28 -0400, Peter B. West wrote:
Paul,
Thanks for your timely response.
Paul Grosso wrote:
...
> You are right that compound datatypes are not the same
> thing as shorthands.
>
>
>>"Shorthand properties do not inherit from the shorthand on the
>>parent. Instead the individual properti
r on, the following example is given:
leader-length.minimum="0pt"
leader-length.optimum="12pt"
leader-length.maximum="100%"
In other words, the value of the leader-length property is not a
or a , it is a whose
components are not simply s, but |.
'inherit&#
Sirs,
I find the definition of compound datatypes very confusing. Fom an
implementation point of view, I find myself treating the compound
types not as datatypes but as another form of shorthand, whose major
difference from the existing shorthand properties is in the handling
of inheritance
