Re: [docbook-apps] improve DocBook's HTML output

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

I'd like to get clarification on what are considered excessive divs.  Here 
is a sample of the XHTML output for the start of a chapter:

            <div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
                <div class="titlepage">
                    <div>
                        <div>
                            <h2 class="title"><a id="tablechap"/>Chapter 1. 
First</h2>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="toc">
                    <p>
                        <b>Table of Contents</b>
                    </p>
                    <dl>
                        <dt>
                            <span class="section">
                                <a href="#Tables">Tables that are made up of 
DocBook tables that
                                    wrap and keep going a very long time 
because its dumb and maybe
                                    even more</a>
                            </span>
                        </dt>
                        <dd>
                            <dl>
                                <dt>
                                    <span class="section">
                                        <a href="#id643017">Formatting 
tables</a>
                                    </span>
                                </dt>
                            </dl>
                        </dd>
                    </dl>
                </div>
                <p>Testing several tables with some text.
                ...

To me, the only excessive divs are the two extra <div>s without class 
attributes around the <h2> chapter title.  The other divs with class 
attributes can potentially serve CSS purposes, no?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Green" <jmg7439@rogers.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] improve DocBook's HTML output


> >And perhaps someone has an opinion on the claim that the current (X)HTML
>>output suffers from "div-itis" (excessive use of <div> elements). See
>>http://backtobase.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/docbook-is-not-making-my-life-easier/.
>
> I would like to see unnecessary divs removed. Is there a purpose for them? 
> They make styling with CSS more difficult. For example, indenting the 
> first line of paragraphs except for the first paragraph of a chapter and a 
> paragraph right after a heading would be much easier without the divs in 
> between them in the HTML.
>
> I am also in favour of improving the HTML code in general. Thanks all of 
> you for your efforts.
>
> Thanks
> John
>
> -- 
> John Green
>
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