Hi again Edward,
At 03:59 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
It's not so much that I even want to use DOE, as I feel as if I am being
pushed into it. It seems as if the alternative is either (1) the
possibility of an overly complex solution, (2) living with bugs introduced
by IE, (3) present the document text in a grammatically incorrect manner,
or (4) change the source XML to a more IE friendly but logically incorrect
format.
Isn't DOE the lesser of the 4 evils?
Quite possibly the least, yes.
But I hinted at a (5): use a more permissive structure in your output, such
as <div>, with a @class qualifier if you like. It's may not appear as
"correct" as blockquote from the semantic point of view, but then
blockquote was never very well specified.... I dare say most blockquotes
aren't block quotes at all. :->
I guess that's why I asked the question, because I am both pissed that
there is no easy solution for a common situation and, without the level of
experience of others here, I feel unable to differentiate between the
"evils" of the choices I am now faced with.
That's fair enough. But that's also why we're here. Both to warn of
possible pitfalls in the road ahead, and to help explain the complexities.
BTW there won't be any thunderbolts from heaven if you decide to use d-o-e
... as we said, how bad it is likely to be is one of those things that Depends.
How did the creators of XSL envision the handling of these nested block
level elements?
I don't know: you'd have to ask them yourself. In general I think they'd
point to the line in the spec that limited XSLT 1.0's goals to
down-conversions. (And indeed if you only had to spill the paragraph's
contents, not group contiguous nodes within it based on the element type of
their neighbors, you'd have no problem.)
FWIW, you're not the only one with these headaches. Indeed, for some kinds
of markup tasks (think: "overlap!") it's worse than just XSLT -- it's the
whole "XML is really a tree" dogma (on which so many XML technologies are
based). Tag-writing used to be much more prevalent and much more acceptable
than it has become in the Age of Trees.
Take a look at
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502&L=tei-l&F=&S=&P=170
and the thread from whence it springs.
Cheers,
Wendell
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