On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:13:00PM +0300, Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
> >As far as I can see, DL's are not deprecated, but they probably should
> >be, as the vast majority of use cases are semantically incorrect.
> 
> Specification provides example: "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."

The problem is that it isn't clearly specified. The purpose of a
definition list isn't actually defined beyond its name.

> I like this loose interpretation

I tend towards following Postel's Law:

  Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in which you accept from
  others.

Or, to apply it to this example: if you are writing HTML then assume a
strict interpretation (it is for definitions only) and if you are
writing a user agent then assume a loose interpretation (its for keys
with any number of values).

-- 
David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk



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