Hazard Statement Width

Paul, 
Don,

 

I just checked the 
content model of hazardstatement and it's child elements, and I do not find any 
potential error.

 

Paul, your 
statement "In a hazard statement, you can set the 
width of the hazard statement using the attribute width." is not 
correct.

hazardstatement has 
been derived from the element note and there is no width 
attribute.

 

So we can shorten it 
and just leave everything as it is.

 

 

The width for a 
hazardstatement still is an issue, an important issue, but it is just a rendering 
issue. And we may have to provide guidance or recomendations in a 
document.

 

 

If we like to be 
very fastidious we may have to cover issues 
like: when a hazardstatement with a hazardsymbol is placed into a table and 
the width of the hazardsymbol is exceeding the width of the tablecell, the table 
or even the pagewidth. But then we may need to catch all cases of nested 
width attributes in our specification.

 

Best 
regards

 

Chris

 

 

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