- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:45:41 -0600
- To: <html-tidy@w3c.org>
Marc Rubin wrote: > I'd like to preserve the implicit hierarchy of HTML headings when > converting to XHTML. For example, I'd like to end up with this XHTML output: > > <h1>Heading 1 text > <h2>Heading 2 under heading 1</h2>> > Would this translation be feasible as an option in Tidy? Not unless Dave decides to let Tidy emit invalid [x]HTML. If you look at the xHTML DTD[1], you will see that headings and paragraphs are defined as block-level elements that can not contain other block-level elements, only "text" and inline-level elements (like i, em, strong, etc.). Also, if you think about it for a minute, you'll understand why. Your example above shows a Heading-Level-2 *INSIDE* a Heading-Level-1. Why would one want a heading inside another heading? If you really do have some reason you want to do this, you'll have to invent your own document type, but it wouldn't be what we call XHTML or HTML. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd /Jelks
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