Re: Clarification of reset behaviour

Brian Birtles <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:24:34 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.smil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> When you call endElement() on an element with no end attribute, you
> effectively add an end attribute, and the timing has to be recalculated
> with that (virtual) end attribute. =A0See [1] where it says that each
> endElement() call (and the other DOM calls) creates a single instance tim=
e.
>
> I can't find an explicit mention of this, so I think this might be a
> subject for an erratum. =A0It is certainly the intention that adding an
> instance to a time list behaves as if the attribute comes into being, if
> it wasn't there already.

Thanks for getting back to me on this. I think the erratum you
mentioned would be helpful as I don't think it's obvious that adding
an end instance time causes the timing model to behave as if an end
attribute was specified.

Thanks again.

Best regards,

Brian Birtles