- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:12:38 -0700
- To: "Fred L. Drake" <fdrake@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>, "Scott E. Preece" <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Fred L. Drake wrote: > Scott E. Preece wrote: > > You've never seen a book or article with a table or list in the middle of > > a paragraph? It's not really that uncommon. I've certainly seen > > - tables > > - figures > > - lists > > - code segments > > and other insertions in the middle of paragraphs. Why not? > > Scott, > Thanks; adding "code segments" makes it clear to me what is > intended. I'll agree with adding TABLE to the content model of P, as > long as PRE, OL, and UL get added as well. (Though they should still > default to being block level elements for formatting, which seems to > work with your explanation.) There may be some other block level > elements which should be added, but those seem to be the obvious > ones. Are there arguments against this besides the fact that </P> is optional? </TH> and </TD> are also optional, yet TH and TD can contain any other block elements. How about: <!ENTITY % paragraph "%text | %list | %preformatted | BLOCKQUOTE | TABLE"> <!ELEMENT P - O (%paragraph)*> ? David Perrell
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