Fujisawa-san:
ABSOLUTELY!!
The printer must/shall accept all the attributes defined without issuing an
error but here are some that we allow the printer to silently ignore and
therefore not affect the printed page.
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Don Wright don at lexmark.com
Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board
Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors
f.wright at ieee.org / f.wright at computer.org
Director, Alliances & Standards
Lexmark International
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Jun Fujisawa <fujisawa.jun at canon.co.jp> on 01/10/2003 09:28:31 AM
To: don at lexmark.com
cc: xp at pwg.org
Subject: Re: XP> Open issues for XHTML-Print and CSS Print Profile and
"LastCall" for issues.
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
<mailto:fujisawa.jun at canon.co.jp>