I need this ability to replicate government legislation and
apparently it has to be an EXACT duplicate. As far as I can tell,
this isn't in the spec. Has anyone found a solution? Some fancy CSS
hack or DOM scripting that will get around this?
If that "EXACT" is truly non-negotiable, as in, it simply must be a
colon where the legislation calls for a colon, or else your document
has no legal standing, then I can't see how it's possible to achieve
this and still have a semantic list. There's no code in either HTML
or CSS capable of specifying the punctuation associated with list
items.
Which leaves you with the options to render these documents in PDF,
or to "fake" the list structure, as in, create code which reproduces
what you want visibly, but without the underlying code being,
semantically, a list. Neither is a very happy outcome, so I'd be
happy to be proved wrong.
jh
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