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Hi Paul, Well, outside have having listHeading as an optional first element of a regular list, I see it this way: if you have a special list with the special element as its first element, then you have a special list with its own name (e.g. "headedList"). If you have a special name for a list with a special first element, then (as long as the special element is always first) you no longer need to identify the special element--you could just have this special list type for which the first element was always special. This is just thinking through the possibilities. I was just curious which of the possibilities had been implemented anywhere, and it looks like the optional special first element of a "regular" list is the most sensible. Bob Paul Prescod wrote: > Bob DuCharme wrote: > >> DocBook offers seven kinds of lists, but none that quite fit this >> bill: I'm looking for a list with a content model that is a rough >> equivalent to a <em><li/></em> followed by li+. That is, a list where >> a processing application is to assume that the first list item is >> something to be set apart from the others through whatever >> capabilities a given platform offers. Has anyone ever heard of such >> an animal in any DTD or schema that might serve as a model for me? > > > If the first one is special, why doesn't it have its own element type > name? i.e. "list heading". > > Paul Prescod > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > >
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