Re: [office] review of editor's notes for attributes of namespace fo

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems<Oliver-Rainer.Wittmann@Sun.COM>]

Hi Patrick,

Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Oliver,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed comments!
> 
> I can quickly respond on the ed. note that was unclear:
> 
> Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>> - ed. note in "19.174.1 General"
>> I do not understand the purpose of this ed. note.
>>
> The ed. note is under fo:background-color and reads:
> 
>> Ed. Note All the fill styles appear to be members of 
>> style-graphic-fill-properties-attlist if we want to generate a list of 
>> them. In the original text they were in a single chapter together.
>>
> The reason for that comment was text that appears in the immediately 
> preceding paragraph that reads:
> 
>> Fill formatting properties can be used instead of this attribute for 
>> enhanced table row and table cell background fill styles. If a value 
>> for a |draw:fill| attribute is provided, then a background image that 
>> is specified by a |<style:background-image>| element and a background 
>> color that is specified with the |fo:background-color| attribute are 
>> switched off.
>>
> A better question would have been: Does "fill formatting properties" 
> include only draw:fill or does it include other attributes?
> 
> Do note that the text says, "If a value for a draw:fill attribute is 
> provided,...." If you look at the schema, "none" is a specified value 
> for draw:fill.
> 
> I assume that means that if an image has been specified by a 
> <style:background-image> element and a background color has been 
> specified by a fo:background-color attribute, that by specifying a 
> draw:fill attribute with the value "none," that I could switch off both 
> of those settings.
> 
> I don't know that is what we intended but I think it is a fair reading 
> of the text as it stands.
> 
> (Note that "enhanced table row" appears once and only once, here.)
> 
> If my assumption about draw:fill is correct (see 19.109) then the 
> definition of draw:fill, which reads in part:
> 
>> The |draw:fill| attribute specifies the fill style for a graphic object.
>>
> 
> is incorrect because a cell or row isn't a graphic object.
> 
> And so would that cascade down to the definitions of the various types 
> fill which reference drawing objects.
> 
> There isn't any reason why we can't use one draw:fill attribute for both 
> graphic/drawing objects as well as cells and tables but then our 
> definitions need to take that broader range of application into account.
> 

Thanks Patrick - now I got the ed. note's intention.
But, unfortunately I have no solution for it.


Best regards, Oliver.

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