Numbered headings, and lists :-(

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Two examples of styling.

1. Plain bad styling. A list, with one list item content being styled as heading
level 3

         <text:list text:style-name="L2">
            <text:list-item>
               <text:p text:style-name="P14">Third item, list 1
continuation</text:p>
            </text:list-item>
            <text:list-item>
               <text:p text:style-name="P14">Fourth item, list
continuation.</text:p>
            </text:list-item>
            <text:list-item>
               <text:h text:style-name="P15"
text:outline-level="3">Special, heading inside list.</text:h>
            </text:list-item>
         </text:list>

2. Questionnable styling. Using a 3 deep nested list to obtain
numbering of the form 1.1.1
for a level 3 heading.
(I'm guessing about the rationale)

         <text:list text:style-name="L5">
            <text:list-item>
               <text:list>
                  <text:list-item>
                     <text:list>
                        <text:list-item>
                           <text:h text:style-name="P19"
text:outline-level="3">Audio</text:h>
                        </text:list-item>
                     </text:list>
                  </text:list-item>
               </text:list>
            </text:list-item>
         </text:list>


I'm being very straightforward with my transformation, generating
simple headings with the source style as an attribute value.
<bridgehead style="h3">Field tests.</bridgehead>

Problem.

I *could* included headings within lists as headings.... if the only
place I found them was for numbering.
With weak/bad styling that won't be true.

Is it too strong to say that this abuse of nested lists is poor markup?

regards DaveP






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