- From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@tigerstaden.no>
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:53:42 +0100
- To: "Thomas O'Connor" <me@ocoth.id.au>
- Cc: "HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:59:18 +1100, Thomas O'Connor <me@ocoth.id.au> wrote: > If they are separate units like you suggest, such as an e-mail address, > telephone number, etc. then they probably would be better > marked up as a <dl>, like so. > > <dl> > <dt>Email address</dt> > <dd>me@ocoth.id.au</dd> > <dt>Telephone number</dt> > <dd>+61 2 4900 0000</dd> > </dl> That's correct considering the HTML 4 description of <dl>, but in XHTML 2.0, it has been more restricted. A definition list should contain definitions of words. The definition of «Email address» is not «me@ocoth.id.au», but something like «A location to which e-mail can be delivered»[1]. I wrote something about this not more than two months ago: <url: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2004Sep/0004.html>. ____ [1] <url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address> -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- asbjornu@hotmail.com «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
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