- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:37:43 +0100
- To: "Peter Foti (PeterF)" <PeterF@SystolicNetworks.com>
- Cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
"Peter Foti (PeterF)" wrote: > I agree. If the numbering is considered critical to the understanding of the > document, then it is content. /Prima facie/, I agree; but how then would you propose marking up such a list? If you present it as an ordered list, you would want to suppress auto-numbering yet have the "number" part of the content appear where the auto-number would normally appear; and if you mark it up as an unordered list, then not only would the same constraints apply, but you would also need to inform the browser that the list could not be presented in an order other than that implied by the source code. Does this suggest that (X)HTML need be extended to accommodate a third class of list, in which both sequence number and text are explicitly specified, rather along the lines of a <DL> but with different implied default presentation rules ? Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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