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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Line breaks
/ "Beckers, Marc" <Marc.Beckers@softwareag.com> was heard to say: | > | </unorderedlist> | > | > Oh, barf. That's a variablelist and you know it :-) | | Well, we already have a definition list that transforms | to variablelist. Our unordered list transforms | to itemizedlist. The former nicely gives us <DL> in HTML, | the latter <UL>. But the structure in your example is clearly a variablelist semantically. Or a definition list of some sort. If you're saying you're motivated to make this funky <newline/>, ahem, hack because you want a UL instead of DL in the formatted output, I must humbly suggest that you're attacking the wrong end of the problem. Translate to <variablelist role="whyiwantthisdifferentoutput"> and do The Right Thing with that kind of variablelist. | > Unknown PIs are ignored. Heck, known PIs at unexpected places | > are even ignored. | > | | I'm not familiar with PIs. Are you saying that if we transformed | newline to something like <?linebreak?> it would be passed over | into the HTML where we could globally change it to <BR>? | (though our DocBk instances would be littered with these | "things"). No, I'm saying it would vanish into the bit bucket, never to be seen in the HTML at all. | > In XSL, this would be much easier... | > | Our next step... :-) | > No, it's purely presentational. What semantic meaning does it | > have? And how do you propose to implement your markup on a PDA | > or speaking cell phone? | | Slight pause? :-) | Point conceded, though. I had considered <phrase | role="breakafter>...</phrase> | but it was thought to be too "tedious for authors" ;-) Yep, but at least then you'd know where the beginning and end was. That'd make it easier to translate it into a proper variable list for audio transmition<wink/> Cheers, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The fundamental delusion of http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | humanity is to suppose that I am Member, DocBook Editorial Board | here and you are out | there.--Yasutani Roshi
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