Re: List Item (LI) Suggestion

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@hal.com)
Mon, 12 Sep 94 01:03:53 EDT

In message <199409102351.AA03985@char.vnet.net>, Stan Newton writes:
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>1. The MENU and DIR list definitions are specifically designed for
>rendering Menu like lists and Directory listings, respectively. Some sources
>suggest that DIR rendering should be multi-column. These are
>really both inconsistent with the definition of LI as a container for
>block items.

Sound reasonable. Anybody feel strongly one way or the other about
this? I think we can change MENU and DIR to exclude block items
(via exclusion exceptions, not by a change to the LI element, I'm
afraid.)

>2. The broad content definition for LI when used requires end tags for
>proper delineation of the range of the LI content. When used this way, the
></LI> tag cannot be optional except under certain very narrow cases.

I don't believe this is the case. Could you give an example where
</LI> cannot be inferred? Every <LI>, save the first, implies a </LI>
right before it.

>I'm not sure I got all the syntax correct, but my concept is that there are
>should be two kinds of list items, plain (LI) and extended (XLI). End tags
>are optional for LI and required for XLI. LI list items are single paragraph
>entries. XLI list items can contain multiple paragraphs, lists, forms, etc.
>DIR and MENU lists should allow only LI content while OL and UL can allow
>either.

We can make this distinction without introducing an XLI tag (which
would be a very expensive change at this point)...

<!ELEMENT (OL|UL) (LI)+>
<!ELEMENT (DIR|MENU) (LI)+ -(%block)>

Dan