[whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 --> HTML

David Latapie david at empyree.org
Fri Feb 9 03:56:38 PST 2007


On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:01:35 +0530, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:55:51 +0530, David Latapie <david at empyree.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:07:49 +0100, Jorgen Horstink wrote:
>>>> - LH (caption for list! A must-have)
>>> Why not using the title attribute?
>> 
>> Do you mean <ul title="foo"> <ol title="foo"> ?
> 
> attribute values suck as a way of encoding text that should be 
> presented. They 
> don't do i18n well, it is impossible to highlight/emphasise/denote the 
> importance of some part of the text, etc etc.

We agree. That is why, out of <div>-ing a list and the previous 
paragraph (which is not a real solution), I don't see any way to 
semantically attach a “caption” to a list, particularly an ordered one.
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