Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSLT stylesheets: bugs, features, patches,enhancements

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@gmx.de>]

Ok, the spec is more than clear on this. I simply have not read the last 
paragraph at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-sets.

Joerg

>>> 11. general: attribute-sets
>>>
>>> What's bad with attribute-sets, is the fact, that you have to copy 
>>> all attributes in an attribute-set if you want to overload only one 
>>> attribute.
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>>
>>
>> That is not true.  Atribute-sets are supposed to be merged,
>> based on import precedence.  There is a bug in the current
>> xsltproc that prevents the merger, and so is you use xsltproc
>> you must copy all of them.  But that bug should be fixed
>> in the next release of xsltproc.
> 
> 
> Ah, sorry, I have to read the spec more exactly at this point I guess. I 
> had a quick look when writing the above and I was not sure
> 
>>> Might be wrong here, but I think to set the font-size to our own 
>>> value I have to copy the complete attribute set to my stylesheet that 
>>> includes the DocBook stylesheets.
> 
> 
> because of strange different behaviour (maybe because of having 
> sometimes not set the java.endorsed.dirs and so using the old Xalan from 
> JDK 1.4). So please ignore this comment.