Re: More comment on section and h

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.

Received on Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:12:26 UTC