Re: [office] proposal to solve problem with attributestyle:default-outline-level

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

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On 21/02/07, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> 
>> The concept of inheriting styles is also that the derived style can 
>> override any attribute
>> of its parent. Otherwise it's just an alias, not a derived style ;)
>>
>> For many other attributes we already have a way to model "the parent 
>> wants <foo>
>> but I want <none>", I think it makes sense to add "none" for any 
>> attribute that doesn't
>> have it, if the attribute is not mandatory in the first place (i.e. 
>> when a style without that
>> attribute is allowed, and a derived style must therefore have a way to 
>> revert to "I don't
>> have this attribute).
> 
> You could consider the namespace model of inheritance (not reversion 
> though).
> 
> attribute="" would then override the ancestors attribute="something" value,
> without using 'none', and vice versa, unless a default is set at the root
> or by some other method.
> 
Yes, introducing value "" for style:default-outline-level would also 
fine for me.

Regards, Oliver.