Hussein Shafie schrieb:
> Yves Forkl wrote:
>> XXE 3.8.1 seems to behave in a strange manner with respect to the
>> counter-reset CSS instruction as soon as you try to reset several
>> counters at once. [...]
> It is probably a bug, but we cannot fix it due to the
> way the CSS engine has been implemented.
>
> A rule like:
>
> foo {
> bar: 1;
> bar: 2;
> bar: 3;
> }
>
> is equivalent to:
>
> foo {
> bar: 3;
> }
>
> because a rule is implemented as a set of properties (keyed by the name
> of the property) and not as a list of properties.
I see. Maybe then this limitation of XXE would best be documented at the
bottom of the "Restrictions" page (while I concede that it is not very
likely that someone would actually look for it in that place when
encountering the above problem):
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/restrict.html
> --> Now the actual workaround is easy, clean and conforming to the CSS
> standard:
>
> A:before
> {
> display: block;
> counter-increment: A-num;
> content: element-local-name() " " counter(A-num, decimal);
> counter-reset: B-num C-num; /*Reset *two* counters at once*/
> }
>
> I've not tried it but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
You are right, this works perfectly well. Thank you for this hint. I
should have studied the CSS specifications more closely...
Yves
