From: buliabyak <buliabyak@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:03:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: comment on the order of parsing declarations
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comment on the order of parsing declarations
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diff --git a/src/style.cpp b/src/style.cpp
index 722f1677d..3ccdb7e97 100644
--- a/src/style.cpp
+++ b/src/style.cpp
@@ -1128,6 +1128,9 @@ sp_style_merge_from_props(SPStyle *const style, CRPropList *const props)
 static void
 sp_style_merge_from_decl_list(SPStyle *const style, CRDeclaration const *const decl_list)
 {
+    // read the decls from end to start, using head recursion, so that latter declarations override
+    // (Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#cascading-order point 4.)
+    // because sp_style_merge_style_from_decl only sets properties that are unset
     if (decl_list->next) {
         sp_style_merge_from_decl_list(style, decl_list->next);
     }