[whatwg] Fwd: Re: Heading, binding, LH (was:XSLT: HTML 5 --> HTML)

David Latapie david at empyree.org
Fri Feb 9 19:35:54 PST 2007


On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:17:54 -0500, Michel Fortin wrote:
> that the two parts (term and description) were meant to appear in 
> this particular order within a definition list because you cannot 
> formalize the term/description association if you allow <dt> and <dd> 
> to appear in any order.

Are you sure?

<dl>
	<dd>How do you call a technically brilliant but socially inept 
person?</dd>
	<dt>A nerd</dt>
</dt>

> Name-value groups may be terms and definitions, metadata topics and values, 
or any other groups of name-value data.

Don't illustrations/description couples fall in the name-value 
relationship?

> By improving the current spec, by going back to what you were using 
> with HTML4, or by ignoring the spec and doing it anyway. I'm 
> advocating the former.

So do I. But I (and other who agree with us) would have to know why it 
is not currently possible -- I mean what, out of words, prevents this 
to be possible.
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