- From: Dave Hodder <dmh@dmh.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:19:45 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: >> <section class="qa"> > > > Why is this not an element? > > >> <p><qst>It's been a decade since 242 released any new material. > > > Why are qst and ans inline elements, forcing a complicated content > model, and restricting both to a single paragraph? > > Why is there not a content model (which I would expect to look more > or less the same as dl)? A content model is needed, otherwise the most > important piece of information cannot be cleanly specified: which > answer belongs to which question. Proposing <qst> and <ans> as inline elements was, I admit, an attempt to retro-fit XHTML with as few changes as possible. Associating inline question and answer elements could be done with ID/IDREF, but I concede your approach has a better structure and the single-paragraph restriction is unacceptable. Thanks, Dave
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