- From: Daniel Glazman <glazman@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:20:09 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Etan Wexler wrote: > The XHTML 2 specification should not include 'start' and 'value' > attributes. > > The strongest argument for the 'start' attribute is the > interrupted list. In this case two list elements, separated by > other elements, serve to represent what is in abstraction a > single list. In order to best deal with this situation, we may > indeed want an attribute, but not 'start'. What is necessary, > rather, is a reference from the continuing element to the > previous element in the same list. We could call such an > attribute 'continues' or 'previous'. I disagree. If I receive a text with questions numbered 1 to 6 in a list and only have answers to 2 to 4, I may want to start a list with start="2". Not all instances of lists with a start index > 1 are continuing lists. The "let's do that with CSS" answer is not more satisfying. The fact that the list's numbering starts at 2 instead of 1 is not purely presentational but also content-related. </Daniel>
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