- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:31:36 +0200
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- CC: webmaster@eammm.com, www-html@w3.org, 'Dan Brickley' <danbri@w3.org>
Mark Birbeck wrote: >> Dropping it would work too. I still haven't seen any use cases that >> require this particular empty construct. > > That doesn't mean there aren't any! Steven gives a number in one of > his presentations: > > <http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/04-19-steven-XHTML2-XForms/> > > (See about 1/3 of the way down.) > > The idea is that we need some kind of *semantic* separator. In a > navigation list it might separate one group of links from another; in > some prose it might be a 'pause' that is more than a new paragraph, > but less than a new section or chapter. Yes, but why does it have to be an empty construct? The use cases you mention could easily be achieved as well using a grouping element that separates the two instances. Using CSS or some other styling language you can tell a voice browser to take a pause or a visual browser to draw a small SVG image between the two section to separate them... Grouping things in order to separate is more practical than using an empty element construct to split siblings. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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