- From: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:03:03 +0300
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Shane McCarron wrote: > >>Also, this is really about the semantics, not the presentation. If you >>put stuff in an "ol" list you are saying "the order of these items is >>important, and likely critical to understanding the information". > > No, I'm not. It's just explicit numbering. I want to make some points, and > I number them, for example in order to refer them elsewhere in the > document, or outside it. And you cannot even refer to those numbers because there's (currently) no way to refer to automatilly generated marker text containing the number. The original reason, IMO, to use <ol> was to get automatic numbering so that you don't need to modify (n-k) items in case you want to insert a new element in position k in a list with n items. How about using a <list> and <li> (list item) which could contain optional <lm> (list marker) which would be an explicit marker for this list item. This would allow the author to refer to specific list item outside the list. The marker is definately part of the content and not part of the style (think legal text with stuff like "§43.b"). -- Mikko
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