DavePawson wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jan 2009
09:51:23 -0500:
<foil template="my-two-column-template">
<block name="left">
<itemizedlist/>
</block>
<block name="right">
<mediaobject/>
</block>
<block name="footer"/>
</foil>
I see. Not bad. However, I would prefer to avoid element grammar to
depend on attributes because this is not generally the way DocBook
does it.
This sort of layout can in principle be achieved using DocBook tables
(CALS or HTML style), which is what I do, but it is unwieldy and
cumbersome to adjust.
It is not semantic, it is inaccessible for non-visual users
and plain bad XML IMHO.
Could you elaborate on that a bit ?
You are certainly right about the non-semantic nature of this markup (if
in fact you stipulate that presentation is non-semantic, which, in the
context of slides, one could argue about).
I don't quite agree about the (in-)accessibility point. Obviously, the
order those blocks appear matters, but having them being rendered (or
read) in the order in which they appear seems to be a good compromise
(and that is in fact what HTML pages with accessibility in mind, do, too).
And what makes the above 'plain bad XML' ?
Thanks,
Stefan
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