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Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 01:37:50
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:24:35AM +0200,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> wrote 
 a message of 22 lines which said:

That permits LTR or RTL, bot not an empty dir="", or is it another
SGML oddity I've never before heard of ?

No, no, you're right, the important point I wanted you to read was
INHERITANCE. 

<foo dir="ltr">
<bar> <!-- Has dir="ltr", from inheritance -->
Bla bla
</bar>
Bla again
</foo>

Yes, my question was why the draft needs dir="" at all,

Because, as I said, otherwise, you could not express the fact that the
direction of the text in the <bar> element above is "Not
Known". Without dir="", you could not "cancel" the directionality of
<foo> in its nested elements.


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