Ballot request for style inheritance proposal

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi Rob, all,

I would like to request a vote for the following proposal:

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/StyleInheritanceProposal

Below is a copy of the propsal which is the text we actually will vote on.


Best regards

Michael

The following text should be added to section of 15.2 <style:style> of 
ODF 1.2 draft 7-5:

Styles defined by the <style:style> element create a hierarchical style 
model and support inheritance of formatting properties. To determine the 
value of a formatting property, it is first checked if the style that is 
referenced by a particular object directly, for instance by a paragraph, 
specifies a value for the formatting property. If this is the case, then 
this value is taken. If the style does not specify a value for the 
formatting property, and if the style has a parent style, then this 
parent style is checked. A parent style is specified the 
style:parent-style-name attribute.

If the parent style specifies a value for the formatting property, this 
value is taken. Otherwise its parent style is checked, if it is defined. 
This process is continued until either a value for the formatting 
property has been found, or until a style has no parent style. If a 
value for the formatting property has not been found, then the default 
style that has the same family as the style that has been referenced 
initially is checked. If it specifies a value for the formatting 
property, then this value is taken. Otherwise an implementation specific 
value is taken.

Schema changes/additions:

none






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