On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:20:53 +0700, James Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Can it be defined and implemented in a way that avoids circular
references. e.g.
<ol id="part1" continue="part2"/>
<ol id="part2" continue="part1"/>
The obvious choice is to use source order i.e. the ID must be defined
before the continuation in the source, otherwise the attribute is
ignored. I don't know how hard this would be to implement though.
This raises a number of issues when DOM is manipulated by a script. For
example, what should happen if there is <ol continue="part1">, and then a
script inserts an <ol id="part1"> before that? Or the other way round? Or
when they are dynamically reordered?
* Which takes precedence out of <ol continue="part1" start="2"> and <li
value="3">?
continue should take priority over start.
I'd rather say it should be the other way round. Here is a use case:
<ol id="part1">
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
</ol>
<p>Here the writing becomes unreadable; however, I managed to decipher the
end of the list:</p>
<ol continue="part1" start="9">
<li>Item 9</li>
<li>Item 10</li>
</ol>
There is a gap in numbering, but still the fragments of the list are
linked together semantically.
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