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From: Jewett, Jim J <jim.jewett@eds.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:35:25 -0400 Message-ID: <B8CDFB11BB44D411B8E600508BDF076C15C321DC@usahm010.exmi01.exch.eds.com>
To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
I understand (and agree with) the decision to replace H1 through H6.
<section class="legal"> is certainly better than overloading <h6>.
But I don't think the current definition of <h> fully solves the
semantics<->markup mapping problem. I suggest changing the models of
section, div, and block* to include at most one optional title as the first
element.
Semantically, section would be something you might expect to see in a table
of contents, like a chapter. div or block* would be more like an example;
an example within a chapter is not more important than an example within a
subchapter.
<section>
<h>Title of the first section.</h>
asdlfjasldfjk asdlfjkasldfjk
<div><h>minor heading</h></div>
<section>
This section has no heading.
<section>
<h>level 3 heading.</h>
<div><h>equally minor heading.</h></div>
</section>
</section>
<section>
Additional problems with the current definition, based on the draft
example:
<body>
<h>This is a top level heading</h>
Oh, h floats up and heads the whole document.
Also, things can be outside of any section.
<p>
....If I put <h>h directly inside a paragraph</h> that would be wrong.
Instead, I have to write
<blockquote>
<div>
<h>This is still attached to the top of the
document, right?</h>
There was no section yet, so it should float up to
body or html.
The heading is OK now <em>because</em> I'm inside a
div,
which can appear inside a blockquote which can
appear inside a
paragraph.
</div>
</blockquote>
</p>
<section>
<p>....</p>
<h>This is a second-level heading</h>
It applies to the whole section, including the paragraph that
already finished.
Well, unless there is an implicit div created by the h and ended by
the next h?
<p>....</p>
<h>This is another second-level heading</h>
It applies to the same section though, so it must be retitled? Or
maybe h really
maps to the next section beneath it?
<p>....</p>
</section>
<section>
<p>....</p>
<h>This is another second-level heading</h>
<p>....</p>
<section>
<h>This is a third-level heading</h>
<p>....</p>
</section>
</section>
