Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.67.0 released

[Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

Paul Heinlein wrote:

> It seems to me that it's good practice to have the DocBook XSL 
> stylesheets combine the appropriate [X]HTML tag with a class attribute, 
> rather than a generic span tag with a style attribute, whenever possible.

But what do you do when there is no appropriate HTML tag? Certainly it 
makes sense to add the right class attribute so we have

<span class="uri">

But should we stop there? Should the XSLT generate a CSS style element 
in the head of each document with rules that match all the class 
attributes? Or should it generate an external CSS style sheet with the 
right rules?

I forget how the cascading order works. If we write out:

<span class="uri" style="font-face: mono">

will a rule in the head or an external stylesheet override this or not?

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