- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:21:10 -0700
- To: <abigail@fnx.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Abigail wrote: > One can use DIV around the paragraph and the list to indicate > a relationship. Using CSS, one can also give UL and OL a top margin that will draw it closer to the preceding paragraph. Neither this nor DIV really defines a relationship in terms of meaning, just a physical grouping. > It is a tree, though not as you mention it. HTML has elements, and > elements are containers. If you make a directed graph G, where each > vertex V in the graph represents an element el(V) in your document, and > there is a link from vertex V to vertex W, iff el (W) appears directly > in el (V). Obviously, there cannot be a cycle: no element has 2 > parents, and no element can contain one of its ancestors. Hence G is a > tree. I can see it's a tree of elements. But excepting text-level elements, not very treeish in terms of structuring content in terms of meaning. You can't consider a heading a general idea and follow branches from the general to the specifics. Most documents are one-parent families with sterile children. David Perrell
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