Re: nested block elements in xml -> html

[Dan Morrison <dman at es dot co dot nz>]

Michael Beddow wrote:
> But in html, the new ol block
> element
> implicitly closes the p element, so that the browser
> in effect rewrites to
> 
> <p class="myclass">
>   Text before list
> </p>  <<=============== !!!!

I don't get it. This result is not a product of an XSL processor, right?
The view-source in the browser does not actually show the (invalid) html
you illustrated?
It just displays 'as if' there was a </p> there, if I understand your
use of the word 'effectively'.

I'm guessing your problem is a layout/browser one, rather than an
XSL/Syntax one.

So which is the browser? 
Netscape, which has a habit of dropping out of styles at every level of
nesting it can, or IE, which 'effectively' throws <p>s around everything
it finds?

Thus you sit down hacking at a save-source version of your output, and
try to confuse the browsers to the point where they give up and let you
get the page the way you want... try DIVs, SPANs, inlining your class
defs as styles, ensure there are no '_'s anywhere in your css
definitions and that all the ';'s are in the right place...

Gotta love it.

But as I say, I can't see how it can be an XSL thing.

.da.


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