- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:05:26 +0200
On Nov 13, 2004, at 01:52, Laurens Holst wrote: > At my job we currently create the documentation files for our product > with a transformation of our documents, which use a 'custom' format, > which is basically XHTML 2.0 plus some XHTML 1.0 tags which we felt > were practical (e.g. <img>), and some stuff of our own. I don't think such private use is a good argument for including elements in a general-purpose markup language for the Web. By the way, why don't you use Docbook? > I can say that stuff like 'section' and 'h' instead of h1...h6 is > quite vital to the process of document creation. Also, try for example > to generate a TOC out of h1...h6 headings (with XSLT, that is...), > it's pretty hard. With XSLT, it is not uncommon that the problem is the hammer--not the nail. Anyway, I do think it's a problem for styling, automatic content extraction and non-CSS presentation that HTML lacks the markup for indicating which parts of the page are content proper and which are navigation and other chrome. Therefore, a footer element for isolating navigation and legal stuff from content would make sense. (Already suggested in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Aug/0229.html at the end of the message.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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