[whatwg] [html5] DI element

[Christoph Päper]

*Anne van Kesteren* <fora at annevankesteren.nl>:
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> The advantage of DI is that it allows grouping of definitions

ACK

> and therefore takes away the importance of element order.

So you want to put 'dt' after 'dd'? Seems strange to me.

> From a structural point of view it is very difficult for current DL  
> element constructs to see which (DT, DD) are bound together as a single  
> entry.

IMHO each sequence of one or more 'dt' followed by one or more 'dd'  
constitute an entry. The current content model of 'dl', "(DT|DD)+", does  
not require that, though---maybe it should be changed to "(DT+, DD+)+".  
Likewise, if 'di' was introduced, it should perhaps look something like  
this:

   <!ELEMENT DL - - (DI)+          -- definition list -->
   <!ELEMENT DI - O (DT+, DD+)     -- definition item -->

OTOH, with 'di' probably even more people would abuse 'dl' for 'table'.

> (Styling is another advantage,

I've thought about it (before), but I cannot think of a good way to select  
a number of boxes and build an anonymous one including them to have, for  
instance, a border around them.