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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Thu, Jun 22 2006 12:30AM
Subject: How to present lists within lists
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What is the best way to present the following type of information?

Company 1 name
URL
e-mail
phone
Company 2 name
URL
US phone
Euro phone
Company 3 name
Phone

I've used a UL for the company names but how should the contact details
be presented? Another UL? There are about ten companies in the list
and the associated information is not uniform.

Penny




From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Thu, Jun 22 2006 12:50AM
Subject: RE: How to present lists within lists
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> Karl Groves

> Why use a definition list? Is that a definition of terms?

Because even the W3C hasn't clearly defined what a definition list
is, so it's open to abuse...aeh...interpretation.

(looking at the spec, would you say that a dialogue is a definition
list? Do the lines that a character says "define" the character? Oh,
an almost metaphysical/philosophical question here...)

P
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From: Daniel Champion
Date: Thu, Jun 22 2006 1:20AM
Subject: RE: How to present lists within lists
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Karl L. Groves wrote:

>Why use a definition list? Is that a definition of terms?

For Penny's purpose, yes. With an appropriate heading such as "Company
contact details" the precise nature of the defintion (contact details)
will be made explicit, as will its relationship to the term (company
name).

The defintion list is an option for marking up just about any list of
key/value pairs IMHO.

Dan




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From: Peter Weil
Date: Thu, Jun 22 2006 2:00AM
Subject: Re: How to present lists within lists
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I've often used definition lists to code these types of lists.
Definition lists provide a semantic relationship between the term
(<dt> tag) and the definition or definitions (<dd> tag).

- Peter

On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Penny Roberts wrote:

> What is the best way to present the following type of information?
>
> Company 1 name
> URL
> e-mail
> phone
> Company 2 name
> URL
> US phone
> Euro phone
> Company 3 name
> Phone
>
> I've used a UL for the company names but how should the contact
> details be presented? Another UL? There are about ten companies
> in the list and the associated information is not uniform.
>
> Penny
>
>
>


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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Thu, Jun 22 2006 2:40AM
Subject: Re: How to present lists within lists
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Penny Roberts wrote:

> P.S. So nice to be able to put faces to names courtesy of @media photos
> on flickr.

Not just faces *gasp* (danger, "may offend", and certainly not advisable
if you're just having your dinner or something)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/170321245/

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