[Pmwiki-users] Re: Suggestions for [[<<]] replacement.

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	PhpWiki uses %%%.  It's easy to type and I'm used to it. :-)


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:17:25AM -0600, John Feezell wrote:
>
>>Perhaps we should open a PmWikiPage for documentation, discussion of how
>>PmWiki markup relates to HTML4.1 and XHTML1.0 etc.  Seems this might be
>>helpful for Pm and I know it would be helpful for me.
>>We could cut and paste from the list discussions "key ideas" that would
>>benefit from being placed in a commom location.
>
>
>I think having a page that documents the mappings between PmWiki's
>markup and XHTML would be quite useful.  
>
>Here's a few other responses to the discussion thread...
>
>>On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:15:50 +0100 (CET), Christian Ridderström 
>>
>>While reading up on this subject, I encountered the notion of elements 
>>that are 'inline' (e.g. <I>..</I> and <BR>), and elements that are 
>>considered 'block-level' (e.g. <P>..</P> and <H3>..</H3>) etc. See
>>	http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.3
>
>
>I've never particularly liked HTML or XHTML's distinctions between
>"inline" and "block level" elements, at least from an authoring perspective.
>I do know how it's somewhat useful from a programming perspective.
>But particularly troubling to me is the notion that a paragraph (represented
>by the <p> element) cannot contain lists of any sort--the only way to achieve
>it is to break it up into multiple paragraphs.
>
>>In this case, the <P>-element is block-level and may only contain inline 
>>elements. I assume this means that as soon as we write something in a 
>>paragraph that's a block-level element, we have implicitly ended the 
>>paragraph?  
>
>
>In HTML, yes, but in XHTML you can't have any "assumed endings" for
>block-level elements--the closing </p> tag must be present or it's not
>a valid XHTML document and many browsers will reject it with an error
>message.
>
>Pm
>
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