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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <html lang=en>
  <head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type>
 
-  <title>CSS Style Attribute Syntax Level 1</title>
+  <title>CSS Styling Attribute Syntax Level 1</title>
   <link href="../default.css" rel=stylesheet type="text/css">
   <link href="http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-ED" rel=stylesheet
   type="text/css">
@@ -13,14 +13,13 @@
    <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt=W3C height=48
     src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width=72></a> <!--end-logo-->
 
-   <h1>CSS Style Attribute Syntax Level 1</h1>
+   <h1>CSS Styling Attribute Syntax Level 1</h1>
 
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 12 December
-    2009</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 7 January 2010</h2>
 
    <dl>
     <dt>This version:</dt>
-    <!-- <dd><dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css-style-attr-20091212/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css-style-attr-20091212/</a></dd> -->
+    <!-- <dd><dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-style-attr-20100107/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-style-attr-20100107/</a></dd> -->
 
     <dd><a
      href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-style-attr/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-style-attr/</a>
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 12 December
    <!--begin-copyright-->
    <p class=copyright><a
     href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright"
-    rel=license>Copyright</a> &copy; 2009 <a
+    rel=license>Copyright</a> &copy; 2010 <a
     href="http://www.w3.org/"><acronym title="World Wide Web
     Consortium">W3C</acronym></a><sup>&reg;</sup> (<a
     href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><acronym title="Massachusetts Institute
@@ -79,10 +78,10 @@ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 12 December
 
   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=abstract>Abstract</h2>
 
-  <p>Markup languages such as HTML and SVG provide a "style" attribute on
+  <p>Markup languages such as HTML and SVG provide a styling attribute on
    most elements, to hold a fragment of a style sheet that applies to those
    elements. One of the possible style sheet languages is CSS. This draft
-   describes the syntax of the CSS fragment that can be used in the "style"
+   describes the syntax of the CSS fragment that can be used in the styling
    attribute.
 
   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=status>Status of this document</h2>
@@ -126,14 +125,14 @@ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=contents>Table of contents</h2>
   <ul class=toc>
    <li><a href="#intro"><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</a>
 
-   <li><a href="#syntax"><span class=secno>2. </span>Syntax</a>
+   <li><a href="#conformance"><span class=secno>2. </span>Conformance</a>
 
-   <li><a href="#grammar"><span class=secno>3. </span>Grammar</a>
+   <li><a href="#syntax"><span class=secno>3. </span>Syntax and Parsing</a>
 
-   <li><a href="#interpret"><span class=secno>4. </span>Cascading and
-    Interpretation</a>
+   <li><a href="#grammar"><span class=secno>4. </span>Grammar</a>
 
-   <li><a href="#conformance"><span class=secno>5. </span>Conformance</a>
+   <li><a href="#interpret"><span class=secno>5. </span>Cascading and
+    Interpretation</a>
 
    <li><a href="#ack"><span class=secno>6. </span>Acknowledgments</a>
 
@@ -150,11 +149,12 @@ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=contents>Table of contents</h2>
 
   <h2 id=intro><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</h2>
 
-  <p>Several XML-based document formats have a "style" attribute to permit
-   the author to directly apply style information to specific elements in
-   documents. If a document format defines a "style" attribute and the
-   attribute accepts CSS as its value, then this specification describes the
-   attribute's syntax and interpretation.
+  <p>Some document formats have a <dfn id=styling-attribute>styling
+   attribute</dfn> to permit the author to directly apply style information
+   to specific elements in documents. If a document format defines a styling
+   attribute and the attribute accepts CSS as its value, then this
+   specification defines this <dfn id=css-styling-attribute>CSS styling
+   attribute</dfn>&lsquo;<code class=css>s syntax and interpretation. </code>
 
   <div class=example>
    <p>The following example shows the use of the <code>style</code> attribute
@@ -163,72 +163,22 @@ <h2 id=intro><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</h2>
    <pre>&lt;p style="<em>color: #090; line-height: 1.2</em>"&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
   </div>
 
-  <h2 id=syntax><span class=secno>2. </span>Syntax</h2>
-
-  <p>The syntax of the style attribute syntax is exactly the same as the
-   contents of a CSS <a
-   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">declaration
-   block</a>. A close brace (<code>}</code>) in the style attribute value
-   does not terminate the style data; it is merely an invalid token.
-
-  <p>The same rules for forward-compatible parsing apply to the inline style
-   sheet as to a normal style sheet. See <a
-   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html">chapter 4 of the CSS2.1
-   specification</a>. <a href="#CSS21"
-   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>
-
-  <h2 id=grammar><span class=secno>3. </span>Grammar</h2>
-
-  <p>The syntax of the CSS fragment that is allowed in the HTML "style"
-   attribute can be formally specified as follows:
-
-  <pre>
-inline-stylesheet
-  : S* declaration-list
-  ;
-
-declaration-list
-  : declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]*
-  ;
-</pre>
-
-  <p>Please refer to the grammar in <a
-   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html">appendix D of the CSS2.1
-   specification</a> <a href="#CSS21"
-   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> for the definition of the
-   symbols not defined here.
-
-  <h2 id=interpret><span class=secno>4. </span>Cascading and Interpretation</h2>
-
-  <p>The declarations in a style attribute apply to the element to which the
-   attribute belongs. CSS2.1 <a
-   href="/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity">defines</a> how style sheets and
-   "style" attributes are cascaded together. <a href="#CSS21"
-   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> Aside from the differences in
-   cascading, the declarations in a style attribute must be interpreted
-   exactly as if they were given in a CSS style rule applied to the element.
-
-  <p>The CSS Working Group strongly recommends that document languages do not
-   allow multiple style attributes on a single element. If a document
-   language allows multiple style attributes, each is parsed independently
-   and treated as a separate style rule, the ordering of which should be
-   defined by the document language, else is undefined.
-
-  <h2 id=conformance><span class=secno>5. </span>Conformance</h2>
+  <h2 id=conformance><span class=secno>2. </span>Conformance</h2>
 
-  <p>A document or implementation cannot conform to CSS Style Attribute
-   Syntax Level 1 alone, but can claim conformance to CSS Style Attribute
+  <p>A document or implementation cannot conform to CSS Styling Attribute
+   Syntax Level 1 alone, but can claim conformance to CSS Styling Attribute
    Syntax Level 1 if it satisfies the conformance requirements in this
-   specification when implementing CSS together with style attribute handling
-   as defined in a document language that has style attributes.
+   specification when implementing CSS together with styling attribute
+   handling as defined in a document language that has CSS styling
+   attributes.
 
-  <p>Conformance to CSS Style Attribute Syntax Level 1 is defined for two
+  <p>Conformance to CSS Styling Attribute Syntax Level 1 is defined for two
    classes:
 
   <dl>
    <dt><dfn id=document>document</dfn>
 
-   <dd>A document represented in a document language that defines a style
+   <dd>A document represented in a document language that defines a styling
     attribute for one or more of its elements.
 
    <dt><dfn id=interpreter>interpreter</dfn>
@@ -262,6 +212,64 @@ <h2 id=conformance><span class=secno>5. </span>Conformance</h2>
 
   <p class=note>Note, this is an informative note.
 
+  <h2 id=syntax><span class=secno>3. </span>Syntax and Parsing</h2>
+
+  <p>The value of the styling attribute must match the syntax of the contents
+   of a CSS <a
+   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">declaration
+   block</a>. The interpreter must parse the styling attribute&rsquo;s value
+   using the same forward-compatible parsing rules that apply to parsing
+   declaration block contents in a normal CSS style sheet. See <a
+   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html">chapter 4 of the CSS2.1
+   specification</a>. <a href="#CSS21"
+   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>
+
+  <p class=note>Note that because there is no open brace delimiting the
+   declaration list in the CSS styling attribute syntax, a close brace
+   (<code>}</code>) in the styling attribute's value does not terminate the
+   style data: it is merely an invalid token.
+
+  <h2 id=grammar><span class=secno>4. </span>Grammar</h2>
+
+  <p>The syntax of the CSS fragment that is allowed as the CSS styling
+   attribute's value is formally specified as follows:
+
+  <pre>
+inline-stylesheet
+  : S* declaration-list
+  ;
+
+declaration-list
+  : declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]*
+  ;
+</pre>
+
+  <p>Please refer to the grammar in <a
+   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html">appendix D of the CSS2.1
+   specification</a> <a href="#CSS21"
+   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> for the definition of the
+   symbols not defined here.
+
+  <h2 id=interpret><span class=secno>5. </span>Cascading and Interpretation</h2>
+
+  <p>The declarations in a styling attribute apply to the element to which
+   the attribute belongs. CSS2.1 <a
+   href="/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity">defines</a> how style sheets and
+   styling attributes are cascaded together. <a href="#CSS21"
+   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> Relative URLs in the style
+   data must be resolved relative to the styling attribute's element (or to
+   the document if per-element resolution is not defined).
+
+  <p>Aside from the differences in cascading, the declarations in a styling
+   attribute must be interpreted exactly as if they were given in a CSS style
+   rule that applies to the element.
+
+  <p>The CSS Working Group strongly recommends that document languages do not
+   allow multiple CSS styling attributes on a single element. If a document
+   language allows multiple CSS styling attributes, each must be parsed
+   independently and treated as a separate style rule, the ordering of which
+   should be defined by the document language, else is undefined.
+
   <h2 id=ack><span class=secno>6. </span>Acknowledgments</h2>
 
   <p>Thanks to feedback from Daniel Glazman, Ian Hickson, Eric A. Meyer,