- From: Edward Lass <elass@goer.state.ny.us>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:47:06 -0500
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
Barry, the XHTML 2.0 [1] authors agree with you. From the Working Draft: "In comparison with earlier versions of HTML, where a paragraph could only contain inline text, XHTML2's paragraphs represent the conceptual idea of a paragraph, and so may contain lists, blockquotes, pre's and tables as well as inline text. They may not, however, contain directly nested p elements." Of course, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for 2.0 to be implemented anytime soon. It might be fair to compare it to HTML 3.0 [2], which turned into the considerably more modest version 3.2 and also foresaw MathML. To me, the semantically improved p element is an example of something that would do well in a modest XHTML 1.2 which still retains backwards compatibility and interoperability with existing user agents as a design principle. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any such plans. - Ed. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/ [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/ >>> "Barry" <wassercrats@hotmail.com> 3/24/2005 1:38:43 PM >>> I wouldn't mind my list being considered part of the paragraph it's in, since the paragraph refers to the data represented by the list, but it should be treated as a separate part of the paragraph. But maybe it should be CSS because then you could properly use that style even if there's no semantic link to the paragraph. > This looks more like a CSS problem than a markup one to me as the list is > clearly separate from the rest of the text. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren
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