Nested lists issue. Dave Pawson

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

This is a repeat of my 'nested lists' issue

Issue summary.
1. List styling. Use of heading styles in lists. Questionnable, but
probable that we can't do much about it.

2. Use of lists to obtain legal numbering style, e.g.1.1.1.
I think this is tag abuse.

reminder of original post below.

regards DaveP





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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