XP> Open issues for XHTML-Print and CSS Print Profile and "LastCall" for issues.

XP> Open issues for XHTML-Print and CSS Print Profile and "LastCall" for issues.

Jun Fujisawa fujisawa.jun at canon.co.jp
Fri Jan 10 09:28:31 EST 2003


Don,

At 3:22 PM -0500 03.1.6, don at lexmark.com wrote:
>4. XHTML-Print conforming printer should support all attributes.
>(http://www.pwg.org/hypermail/xp/0086.html)
>
><FDW> Fujisawa-san's quote leaves out the extremely important context:
>
>"However, not all the attributes are applicable to a rendering of an
>XHTML-Print document in a printed media, especially those that are integral
>to a dynamic display of the document in a browser and the submission of a
>form. Furthermore, special attention is given to simple printers and some
>attributes are deemed too complex for a such a printer to render."
>
>Given the context, the document is simply stating that "things" that don't
>make sense for printing have to be recognized but their behavior may be
>null.
>
></FDW>

I agree with your understanding. I think we can say XHTML Host Language
conformant as long as XHTML-Print require the printer to accept
(i.e. does not issue an error) all the attributes defined in the included
XHTML modules.


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Jun Fujisawa
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