Re: start values in <ol>

David Dorward schrieb:

>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:23:11PM +0200, Manuel Strehl wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm sure this is a rather old discussion, but I found no recent posting 
>>in the mailing list, so I wanted to ask for the current state of the 
>>"start" attribute in <ol>s or the "value" in <li>s.
>>
>>The last thing I read was that they should be dropped in XHTML1.1
>>    
>>
>
>XHTML 1.1 was based on XHTML 1.0 Strict, which was based on HTML 4.01
>Strict, which dropped the start attribute.
>
>The work going on for XHTML 2.0 has added a value attribute to the li
>element.
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-list.html#sec_11.4.
>
>hmmm. I'd quite like to see a way to allow one list to continue
>another list.
>
>Perhaps something like:
>
>OL continuation attribute
>  Takes the id of another list as its value.
>  Indicates that this list is a continuation of another list.
>
>Then:
>
>Within a list, each li element has an associated number, which is used
>for numbering list items in ordered lists:
>
>If the li element has a value attribute, the associated number is the
>value of that attribute;
>
>otherwise, if the li element is the first in the list, and the ol
>element has been specified as a continuation of another list, then the
>number has a value one higher then the last item in said list;
>
>otherwise, if the li element is the first in the list, then the number
>has the value 1;
>
>otherwise the number is one higher than the number of the preceding li
>in the same list.
>
>  
>
Well, sth. like

<ol id="first">
</ol>
<ol id="second" continues="first">
</ol>

would be funny. But I'm at least relieved that the "value" attribute
will return and I'm looking forward to the validator supporting XHTML2...

Manuel