Re: Empty attribute values

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 14:23:58 EDT

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    Hi Paul,

    > >It seems that we have a bunch of other empty props now too, like TF's
    > >new 'display' property.
    >
    > Yeah. That's my comment. It's very un-CSS-like to not have a value
    > for a given name, and if I'd thought of a better way to spec the
    > tabstops value, I wouldn't have made the change.
    >
    > Likewise I empathize with TF's decision. For good reasons, we don't
    > use CSS's box formatting model, so there may not *be* an appropriate
    > setting for our default behavior:

    I just want to point out that the "" value for the display property is
    only temporary, the PP_AttrProp class understand "" as an
    instruction to remove the given property/attribute, so that this is
    neither stored in memory, nor exported into the document.

    Tomas

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