Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Levinson wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > You make excellent points, however for font-style, font-variant and > font-weight the initial value (the default value) is normal, not inherit. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-style > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-variant > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-weight
Sure but the properties are inheritable. The initial value is used for the root element and propagated down the FO tree. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/#speccomact > This is a minor detail, but important if our discussion is used as the basis > for building a recursive descent parser. Moreover we can easily get things wrong with the XSL-FO Recommendation, so double-checking is beneficial and welcome. <snip/> Thanks, Vincent