RE: [legalxml-econtracts] Clause Structure applied to Benchmark Contract

["John McClure" <jmcclure@hypergrove.com>]

Jason,
I don't want to create false expectations -- I am not doing the Mozilla or any
other cross-browser representations, believing that the purpose of this exercise
is to show that standard W3C CSS, Level 2, is adequate to the task.

Insofar as "hanging indents", now I understand what you are saying ... yes, it's
easy to do with CSS - simply add "text-indent:  -1.45em;" to the ListItem
selector. There is a better, more sure, way of doing it that mimics what I can
do with my markup for article, section, clause, and subclauses, because each
article, section, clause, and subclause is composed of a BlockCaption and a
BlockBody -- in these cases, all one needs to do is set both as inline objects,
with the height on BlockCaption set to 100%. I have tried this internally and it
looks just fine. Have to set the width of the two blocks, though. A similar
thing can be done with Lists but, since this was my first crack at lists, I
hadn't addressed that. Now that I think about it, the preferred way to go with
lists is to assume that a <List> is for an inline list, and a <BlockList> is for
a block list of the sort seen in the Benchmark document.

But the point is that it's technically feasible using CSS, without much violence
to the XML at all.

John McClure