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Re: [css-style-attr] Update and grammar question

On Thursday 07 January 2010, fantasai wrote:
> I've updated some of the wording in the draft in response to comments
> from Hixie wrt html5 spec integration and missing normative
> requirements. Since the comments were over IRC and not logged, I
> stuffed them in the CVS logs:
> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/csswg/css-style-attr/Overview.src.html?rev=1
>.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> That aside, I was wondering if it's possible to merge the two grammar
> productions, i.e.
>
>   <pre>
> -inline-stylesheet
> -  : S* declaration-list
> -  ;
> -
>   declaration-list
> -  : declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]*
> +  : S* declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]*
>     ;
>   </pre>
>
> I don't know enough about the grammar's "good style" to say. Bert?

The grammars in CSS 2.1 are bigger than this one and making sure that 
they are neither missing S tokens nor have redundant ones is tricky. 
That's not an issue in this much simpler draft.

But there is some confusion between sections 3 and 4. Both claim to 
define the syntax. I think we should merge them into a single section. 
That could be like this:

    3. Syntax and Parsing

    The value of the styling attribute must match the syntax of the
    contents of a CSS declaration block[link], i.e.,

         declaration-list: S* declaration? [ ';' S* declaration? ]*;

    The interpreter must parse the styling attribute’s value using the
    same forward-compatible parsing rules that apply to parsing
    declaration block contents in a normal CSS style sheet. See
    chapter 4 of the CSS 2.1 specification. [CSS21]

    Note that because there is no open brace delimiting the declaration
    list in the CSS styling attribute syntax, a close brace (}) in the
    styling attribute's value does not terminate the style data: it is
    merely an invalid token.

And then drop section 4.

The link to appendix G is not needed, because there is already a link to 
chapter 4 and all symbols are defined there as well.

I wonder if it is useful to mention comments. The reference to chapter 4 
implies that comments can occur, but will all implementers notice that? 
A note like this might help:

    Note that comment tokens aren't shown in the grammar rule above,
    following the convention of chapter 4 of CSS 2.1.



Bert
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