- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:25:39 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 27/01/14 03:49, L. David Baron wrote: > Using CSS to create a table of contents seems to me to be using CSS > on the wrong side of the barrier between content and presentation; a > table of contents is a part of the content presented to the user and > should be in the content in the markup, not merely something brought > into existence by the presentation. No. I have numerous examples dating to P language and DSSSL at the beginning of the '90s where a table of contents is just another stylesheet applied to the document. That's why we originally wanted multiple views per document. To generate a table of contents, you basically have to apply |display:none| to elements not h1...h6 nor descendants of such header elements. A table of contents is not necessarily clickable and made of hyperlinks. I agree that auto-generating a clickable ToC is another story and a different beast, but a simple ToC is a different view of the same document and has always been considered by the TechDoc industry as purely stylistic. </Daniel>
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