Re: [docbook-apps] Simpler XHTML output

[Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>]

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:40 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:

>>  The div elements serve a
>>purpose in creating a structure in the XHTML that CSS can work with.  Since
>>CSS styles can cascade down through the structure, you can set styles at the
>>appropriate level and override them as needed in lower levels.  I agree that
>>we should eliminate div elements that don't serve that purpose, but I can't
>>see removing them all.
> 
> What use cases do you see then Bob?

See my last email for an instance that just happened to me recently.

> Mine is very plain HTML, if viewed in a browser.
>   Not exiting visually, I agree.

Having extra nested divs doesn't make your output any less plain.  On 
the other hand, they allow me to create fancier pages with extra 
non-content images in weird places, which I do need for my current 
project.  Removing most of the style-less divs wouldn't affect your code 
either way, but would make mine much harder to deal with. :-)

(Note: That's not intended as a slam against you in any way, in case it 
came off as such.  I'm just pointing out that simple-page folk don't 
lose functionality with the divs there while complex-page folk do lose 
functionality without them.)

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