Objects in list items

Wednesday 29 October 2003 7:24:52 am

There has been some discussion lately about having objects in list items.

Currently this is not supported, technically it's really no big problem to have support for this. Currently we support paragraphs and inline tags only.

The question is should we add support for this?
What are the pros and cons for having this?

Example:
<ul>
<li>
<object id="42 />
</li>
</ul>

We've used XHTML 2.0 as inspiration for our XML format:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/

Secondly we should consider tables, should they be supported in list items?

My concern is compatibility with other formats (exports etc) and not to bloat the XML format.

What do you think?

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Wednesday 29 October 2003 6:30:53 pm

Just posted a reply to this: http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/bug_reports/object_link_doesnt_work_in_li_element

I strongly vote for inclusion. :-)

Kai

Thursday 30 October 2003 1:39:38 am

One good example of where we could use this which would not be related to formatting, but to content.

Let's say you want to have a list of persons. Then you would create a list with embedded person objects in the list items. The embedded persons could e.g. be displayed with name and a link to the person object.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc