At 3/8/2007 09:40 AM, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On the other hand, I personally believe that the use of a dl in this
example would make no *semantic* sense. After all, given the term
"President", the definition of that term would be something like "The
individual in charge of the organisation". "John Smith" simply cannot
be seen as a *definition* of the term "President", but is rather the
personal name of that entity which is *denoted* by the term "President".
If it was called a "denotation list", then fair enough; but it's a
definition list, for grouping terms with their definitions (whatever
vague examples may be given in the standard).
In the example you aren't defining any terms: you are specifying that
a key is bound to a value, and *that* is what a table may usefully be
used for.
The HTML spec makes it explicitly clear that the relationship between
term and description can be interpreted more broadly than merely
terms and their definitions:
"Another application of DL, for example, is for marking up dialogues,
with each DT naming a speaker, and each DD containing his or her words." [1]
In a dialog, the speech does not define the speaker; rather, they
mutually inform one another to constitute a data record of closely
associated fields. I suggest that the DT/DD relationship is similar
to the TH/TD relationship of "head" and "datum."
Regards,
Paul
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#h-10.3
HTML 4.01 Specification
10.3 Definition lists: the DL, DT, and DD elements
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