[tei-council] http://purl.org/tei/fr/3519866 (@rend datatype)

[Martin Holmes]

Hi Sebastian,

On 12-07-05 10:14 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> On 5 Jul 2012, at 18:09, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> That's up to the project, surely.
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> isn't that sort of approach just Back to the Bad Old Days? if we're going to revisit @rend, lets
> take the chance to set some better standards on interoperability and a start on a
> proper processing model.

But I'm not suggesting that we revisit @rend. I've been proposing that 
we add @style instead.

>> I'd be inclined to say that if @style is present, then ignore @rend, but you could also combine the two. Redundancy in an HTML @style attribute is ignored, isn't it?
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> so if you met
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> <p rend="bold italic" style="font-weight:normal">
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> you'd ignore the italic?

No, I didn't explain that very well. I meant that if you had this (IMHO 
silly, but possible) encoding:

<p rend="italic" style="font-style: italic">

and your XSL rules translated @rend="italic" to font-style: italic, then 
you'd have this output:

<p style="font-style: italic; font-style: italic;">

and I think such redundancy would be ignored by an HTML user-agent.

But the other option would be to say that if @style is there, ignore @rend.

Cheers,
Martin

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