I might be overlooking something, but I'm pretty sure we don't allow
formatting in locales, which makes this a moot point. Conceptually, I agree
with your intuition on the right order of priority, though.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:16 PM, toreilly <ia...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> When a <date> element calls the localized date format through the "form"
> attribute, the child <date-part> elements can inherit (1) formatting and
> (2)
> text-case transformations from two different objects. The <date-part> can
> inherit formatting attributes and text-case attributes from the parent
> <date> element - and it can inherit those same attributes from the
> corresponding <date-part> defined in <locale>. There are two possible ways
> to interpret the order of inheritance.
>
> 1) Attributes declared directly in <date-part> have highest priority
> 2) Attributes declared in <date-part> element in Locale have medium
> priority
> 3) Attributes declared on parent <date> element have low priority
>
> OR
>
> 1) Attributes declared directly in <date-part> have highest priority
> 2) Attributes declared on parent <date> element have medium priority
> 3) Attributes declared in <date-part> element in Locale have low priority
>
> The CSL processor that I test against does not apply formatting or
> text-case
> transformations that are declared in <date> elements.
>
> I personally don't know enough about locale variations to make an informed
> judgment on this point. My initial thought is that the order of inheritance
> should follow the first method where locale-defined <date-part> elements'
> attributes take precedence over attributes defined in the parent <date>
> element.
>
>
>
>
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