- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:12:20 -0400
- To: "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
- Cc: "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, XHTML-Liste <www-html@w3.org>, www-html-editor@w3.org
On 8/9/06, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org> wrote: > Like the label for a form control, there should be both a nested > version and a threaded version. Allowing an optional for attribute might make sense, but you don't need it for this use case. On the other hand, this tree-view is a perfect example of why you might want arbitrarily nested rowgroups. -jJ > This view is typical in file-system browsing at present. There is a > table. The first column is an index to the rows in the form of a > tree that you can fold or unfold. The remaining columns give > properties of the entries in the tree-shaped index. In other words, > the structure of the collection of rows is a tree but the structure > of the collection of columns is a list. [both could have tree structure, > but most commonly only the collection of rows does.] > In this case, to capture the full semantic structure we have to > thread the first column of cells together with structure outside > the parse tree. The table structure makes each of these cells > just the first cell in its row; and the cells in the row is the inner loop > of iteration and the rows in the table is the outer loop, as represented > in the XHTML linearization.
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