This isn't a problem at all. It's a simple thing to do in HTML. Example:
<ol>
<li>Blah Blah</li>
<li>Blah Blah</li>
<li>Blah Blah
<ol>
<li>Blah Blah</li>
<li>Blah Blah</li>
<li>Blah Blah
<ol>
<li>Blah blah</li>
<li>Blah blah</li>
<li>Blah blah</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
Thanks,
Jason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, <kwill...@zonnet.nl> wrote:
> 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 Harris <and...@woowoowoo.com>:
>
> 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 blah blah blah
>> 2 blah blah blah
>> 2.1 blah blah blah
>> 2.1.1 blah blah blah*
>>
>> I've seen a variety of convoluted javascript and CSS methods, but
>> they're all hacks for what is essentially a pretty logical
>> structure... nested ordered lists!
>>
>> I have to admit, I haven't even checked whether this is addressed in html
>> 5.
>>
>> * BTW: I've read lots of legal documents and I reckon the text can
>> mostly be replaced with blah blah blah without affecting their
>> meaning.
>>
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