RE: [dita] Proposal for Consideration: Default Behavior for List Items

["Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>]

[Not sure if this is the right way to contribute to this thread, but I don't see any contributor hooks on the page or in the Help. Responding to http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200804/msg00060.html.]

 

I agree that rendering is an OT issue.

 

The real issue IMO is that <li> permits #PCDATA and phrase-level elements. These should only be permitted in paragraph-level elements, and any element that permits paragraph-level or "larger" elements as children should not permit #PCDATA and phrase-level elements. This behavior seems to be a relic of the HTML standard.

 

It is easy for OT and vendors to insert <p> by default, and if <li> begins with some other child element it is only a minor nuisance to delete <p> or insert that child ahead of <p>.

 

This would simplify the work of rendering and remove the ambivalence that is the topic of this thread.

 

Perhaps this is already being considered for 1.3 or 2.0.

 

    /Bruce Nevin