[Feature Request] Sane XHTML markup for Properties and Property Drawers

[Feature Request] Sane XHTML markup for Properties and Property Drawers

[Rick Moynihan]

Just bumping this thread/question:

2009/12/2 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com>:
> Also, the properties are exported into the HTML like so:
>
> <pre class="example">PROPERTIES
> :FOO: blah
> :BAR: blah blah
> </pre>
>
> Would something like the following not be a better format for
> parsing/processing?
>
> <div class="properties">
>  <dl>
>    <dt class="property_key_foo">FOO</dt><dd
> class="property_value_foo">blah</dd>
>    <dt class="property_key_bar">BAR</dt><dd
> class="property_value_bar">blah blah</dd>
>  </dl>
> </div>
>
> R.

Re: [Feature Request] Sane XHTML markup for Properties and Property Drawers

[Jonathan Arkell]

Sure, but something like this might be even better still:

<dl class=²properties²>
  <dt>FOO</dt>
  <dd>blah</dd>
  <dt>BAR</dt>
  <dd>blah blah</dd>
</dl>

You don't need the extra div around the dl, since the dl itself is a block
element.  The extra div in this case is semantically null (and void!).

The Definition list is basically a set of key/value pairs anyway, so having
the extra classes "property_key_foo" don't make a whole lot of sense.  Using
a definition list as a series of key-value pairs is a pretty well
established pattern of the XHTML Microformats movement.

Just my 2 cents.

On 2009/12/3 8:41 AM, "Rick Moynihan" <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just bumping this thread/question:
>
> 2009/12/2 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com>:
>> Also, the properties are exported into the HTML like so:
>>
>> <pre class="example">PROPERTIES
>> :FOO: blah
>> :BAR: blah blah
>> </pre>
>>
>> Would something like the following not be a better format for
>> parsing/processing?
>>
>> <div class="properties">
>>  <dl>
>>    <dt class="property_key_foo">FOO</dt><dd
>> class="property_value_foo">blah</dd>
>>    <dt class="property_key_bar">BAR</dt><dd
>> class="property_value_bar">blah blah</dd>
>>  </dl>
>> </div>
>>
>> R.
>
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Re: [Feature Request] Sane XHTML markup for Properties and Property Drawers

[Rick Moynihan]

2009/12/3 Jonathan Arkell <jonathana@criticalmass.com>:
> Sure, but something like this might be even better still:
>
> <dl class=²properties²>
>  <dt>FOO</dt>
>  <dd>blah</dd>
>  <dt>BAR</dt>
>  <dd>blah blah</dd>
> </dl>
>
> You don't need the extra div around the dl, since the dl itself is a block
> element.  The extra div in this case is semantically null (and void!).

Agreed... It was late and I just bashed out the first thing that came
to mind as a starter for 10 :-)

> The Definition list is basically a set of key/value pairs anyway, so having
> the extra classes "property_key_foo" don't make a whole lot of sense.  Using
> a definition list as a series of key-value pairs is a pretty well
> established pattern of the XHTML Microformats movement.

The only reason I added the classes was to try and make things simpler
for CSS selectors to pull out specific properties.  Presumably this is
still reasonably easy with your revised defintion though?

R.