The definition lists aren't soly for defining a term. The W3C specs gives an
example usage of <DL> to marking up dialouges. I see the defintion lists as
a good option when the list consists of two parts, a headline and a
description.
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From: "John Faulds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] use of <p> in <li>
If the lists have a number of levels like
Services
Web Site Development
Graphics
SEO and
more
About Us
Me
You
Someone else
I'm not talking about presenting a list of links; I'm talking about
presenting the actual content on a page. From your example above, it's
quite feasible that you'd just have one page for Services and one for
About Us. If you present
* Web Site Development
* Graphics
* SEO
as a list of services (which it is), then it's quite likely you're going
to need more than one paragraph to describe each of them.
I don't buy the definition list option because I don't believe a
description of a service is a 'definition' of that service (descriptions
and definitions are two separate things).
The argument for splitting onto separate pages may not always be the best
option either - there may not be enough to say about each one to warrant
that, but there may be more than can fit into one single paragraph.
You see bulleted or numbered lists of more than one paragraph in printed
material all the time, particularly academic publications.
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