- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC87S/O-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:52:31 +0000
- To: Jim Dabell <jim-www-html@jimdabell.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Jim Dabell wrote: [long snip] > So, to address your original question, I believe that, although the > recommendation seems to condone using <dl> in this way, I would use a <table> > element. I may be in a minority though. I would too, but mainly because it will look better in the absence of a suitable style sheet. However, to address your more substantive point, isn't there a clear case for asking the W3C to consider widening the scope of <DL<>DT<>DD>, renaming them to be (e.g.) <KP><KW<>KV>, with the implied semantics <KP> = "Keyword/value pair" <KW> = "Keyword" <KV> = "Key value" As you so rightly point out, definitions are just one possible instantiation of keyword-value pairs, and a generic markup language such as XHTML should surely contain generic tags rather than specific. Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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