Re: separator abuse

Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
> I consider <group> to be too generic to be used to group paragraphs with 
> the same context. I'd settle with using just <group>  between <section> 
> and <p> but I think <div> isn't a good enough choice.

Why not <div> or <section> with an appropriate role attribute to provide 
its semantics?

> That still leaves us with the <nl> separator problem. The solution 
> suggested in 
> http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/05/separator-elements#sep-example-7 looks 
> logically almost perfect but the intended rendering (menu items 
> separated by horizontal lines) is really hard to infer from such 
> structure. The logic should be
> 
> "Draw a horizontal line between two <li> elements if they're childs of 
> <nl> element and both contain <ul> element as their only child."

My intention was that the <ul> elements would be styled with the border 
(or other seperator), rather than their parent <li> elements.  If, for 
some reason, that's not feasible for the design, then adding a class 
attribute to identify the list items for styling is fairly harmless. eg.

   <li class="group">
     <ul>
       <li>...</li>
       <li>...</li>
     </ul>
   </li>

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/