[pmwiki-users] nesting divs and tables

[Marc Cooper]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:55:13AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:12:54PM +0200, Dominique Faure wrote:
> > > I would suggest to add some separators, which could both improve the
> > > readability and lower the risks of conflicting names. For example:
> > > 
> > >   (:div[abc xyz]:)
> > >   (:div[abc xyz]end:)
> > > 
> > > This could even be used to provide some structural guidelines to the
> > > page content.
> > 
> > Heh, if you're going to go that far, would it make sense to just add an
> > argument to div and divend?
> > 
> >         (:div level=1:)
> >         (:divend level=1:)
> > 
> >         (:div level=abc:)
> >         (:divend level=abc:)
> > 
> > Or would that be too verbose and therefore annoying?
> 
> I thought about this when developing nested divs and it's still a 
> possibility, but I decided against the word "level" because it might 
> imply an ordering relationship that doesn't exist.  In other words, 
> an author might be tempted to think that "level=2" implies a 
> specific relationship to "level=1", which isn't the case.

I concur. It's the wrong word to use.

> I'm also thinking of extending the >>..<< markup to allow more
> brackets, such that an author could use >>a<<, >>>b<<<, >>>>c<<<<,
> etc. to denote different div begin/ends.  (Of course, these
> would simply translate to (:div:), (:div1:), (:div2:), or
> something like that.)

Hmmm At first I thought this was confusing, but after a few moments 
thought, it would be much clearer than the HTML equivalent - which 
reflects no information at all of div relationships. I like this idea.

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Best,
Marc