Re: unordered lists in HTML2.0

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 22:30:53 EDT
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Peter Flynn writes:
> > Specifically, I'd like for the DTD to allow lists with no LI required.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean you want bulletless and
> numberless list items? This would be easier to implement if we
> used an attribute to LI which held the alternate bullet character,
> or null ("") if no bullet/number was required. I don't have the
> DTD to hand as I write and I can't remember if such an attribute 
> has been suggested or not yet: eg
> 
> <li bullet=""> Like this

  I believe the correct way (current DTD-wise) is to use <UL PLAIN> - has
this been stricken from the DTD when I wasn't looking?

> My own gripe is the enforcement of a <p> within each <li> which
> seems to me to be wholly redundant...

  This is a tad redundant.

-Bill P.