Re: Against 'start' and 'value' attributes

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Hi Etan,

Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 15:00 schrieb Etan Wexler:
> [do not include physical start and value attributes in favour of logical 
continue attribute]

Though I do not agree with the date settings of your computer ;-) I do very 
much agree with your objections, which I find well argued and more than 
reasonable. I always prefer good automatic logical markup over physical 
markup that needs manual work.

To supplement Etan's objections I want to argue giving yet another example:

<h4>Important colors</h4>
<ol>
 <li>red</li>
 <li>green</li>
 <li>blue</li>
</ol>
<p>... and, though not colors in a physical sense ...</p>
<ol start="3" continue="#xpointer(preceeding-sibling::ol)">
 <li>black</li>
 <li>white</li>
</ol>

(I don't know wether my xpointer syntax was correct because I didn't read the 
XPointer technical reports yet, I just browsed them)

The XPath used in the xpointer of the continue URL always refers to the 
previous (unnested) ol.

Now when I insert a new color in the first list, the start attribute requires 
changes while the continue doesn't.
The continue attribute will even work when inserting the following in the 
first list:
<li>
 reddish colors
 <ol>
  <li>pink</li>
  <li>maroon</li>
  <li>magenta</li>
  <li>orange</li>
  <li>purple</li>
  <li>violet</li>
  <li>brown</li>
 </ol>
</li>


I'm just too tired to think of how the continue-xpointer and CSS might work 
together.


If this was a voting against start/value pro continue, I'd say +1.
Etan, you definitely got me on your side.

I also like the idea of giving browser vendors more reasons to implement good 
stuff like Namespaces, XPath, XPointer, XML Schema etc..


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Received on Sunday, 9 March 2003 15:47:53 UTC