At 8/25/2009 10:11 PM, Andrew Harris wrote:
How do people get around the problem of marking up ordered lists in
legal documents, such as policies or terms and conditions?
A typical structure might look like:
1 blah blah blah
1.1 blah blah blah
1.2 blah blah blah
1.2.1 blah blah
For an example how to solve this take a look at
http://www.regels-stadskanaal.nl
It's an online archieve of the legislation of the city of Stadskanaal
in the Netherlands.
As you can see i've moved the nummers of the listitems to the content
of the documents.
Koen Willems
Citeren Andrew
This isn't a problem at all. It's a simple thing to do in HTML. Example:
ol
liBlah Blah/li
liBlah Blah/li
liBlah Blah
ol
liBlah Blah/li
liBlah Blah/li
liBlah Blah
ol
liBlah
This straight OL does not work from a pure XHTML 1.0 Strict perspective
unless your legal documents conform to the browsers' default list numbering
scheme.
The *'type'* attribute is not valid in XHTML 1.0 which really annoys me to
no end, since I work for a county government. The numbering in a
This isn't work correctly: 'counter-reset' and other CSS styles for
this nested lists not supported by IE.
2009/8/26 Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com:
This isn't a problem at all. It's a simple thing to do in HTML. Example:
ol
liBlah Blah/li
liBlah Blah/li
liBlah Blah
Anthony - what's there to 'understand'? This is the semantically correct way
to mark up this particular set of data.
Simple as.
By all means you should be able to style up looking pixel perfect the same
across any browser under the Sun.
Cheers,
Jason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Antony Gr.
Inspect the TOC of this page and see that the markup I used is essentially
correct. The difference is that they wrote the numbers down into the page
(i.e. 1.1, 4.11, 5., etc.)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
If unsure, use a W3C page as a reference point :-)
Cheers,
Jason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at
IE not understand this. You don't agree?
2009/8/26 Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com:
Inspect the TOC of this page and see that the markup I used is essentially
correct.
The difference is that they wrote the numbers down into the page (i.e. 1.1,
4.11, 5., etc.)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
If
...@webstandardsgroup.org] Namens
Jason Grant
Verzonden: woensdag 26 augustus 2009 16:12
Aan: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Onderwerp: Re: [WSG] legal list numbering
Anthony - what's there to 'understand'?
This is the semantically correct way to mark up this particular set of data.
Simple as.
By all means you
HTML5 should *never *include specifications for what you're asking. From an
pure HTML standpoint, you should never be specifying what type of numbering
scheme to use, just how to structure list items. The context of *type* you
speak of is presentational. Maybe a *class=legal* attribute might
How do people get around the problem of marking up ordered lists in
legal documents, such as policies or terms and conditions?
A typical structure might look like:
1 blah blah blah
1.1 blah blah blah
1.2 blah blah blah
1.2.1 blah blah blah
1.2.2 blah blah blah
1.3
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Subject: [WSG] legal list numbering
How do people get around the problem of marking up ordered lists in
legal documents, such as policies or terms
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