- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:37:34 +0200
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:59:02AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
>> Perhaps I am confused, but I certainly can see no difficulty in
>> claiming that "this is a list of items, each of which has a heading"
>> and label it a perfectly valid use-case?
>
> Because it is not a numbered list.
If the items are part of a list, and the order of the items
is significant, then then they are certainly in need of an
OL.
Whether those items contain headers, or not, isn't particularly
interesting in this context IMHO. What is important is that
the items - regardless of /what/ they are - has significant
order.
> Furthermore, to a large extent, whether or not the headings are numbered
> is a styling issue, and would be specified in a narrative style sheet
Yes - it is. However: whether or not a list is numbered is also a
stylistic issue. Whether the order of the items is significant is
a structural one.
Numbering, by way of CSS, headings does not infer any
form of ordering on them.
The only way to /explicitly/ say that "the order in which these items
occur is significant" in HTML is to use an OL.
> (In at least one version of XHTML2 this would be done with section and h
> elements, and the h elements styled to include the numbers.)
Not really. The section and h elements have no built-in specification of
whether or not the order in which they occur is important.
This may be an oversight, actually.
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