On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
You can revert to the rather early HTML form of
<p> with no </p>, which works fine
There are at least two things wrong with this:
1) It is not xml and won't validate as well-formed xml. Every open
tag needs a corresponding end tag or needs to be marked. So you need
either <p></p> or <p/>.
2) It is semantically invalid. There is no content to the paragraph.
Remember a processor is free to style a paragraph in any fashion,
including ignoring containers without content. (Such as HTML does
with an empty <div/>)
We are used to html processing producing a blank line between
paragraphs. This is a matter of presentation. It is equally valid for
a paragraph to start on the next line and be indented. In HTML this
would be equivalent to <br/> Or merely start
on the next line. Or as I have seen in one publication, odd number
paragraphs have margins shifted by a half inch.
Imagine a culture where paragraphs don't start on a line, but are
preceded by one symbol and ended by another, with inter-paragraph
markers being elided into a new symbol.
Note: OSIS does not presume any presentational effects with a <p>. It
is not the equivalent to HTML's <p>, but rather TEIs. In HTML <p> is
a block element. In TEI it is a content element. The difference is
that blocks stack and content is merely content.
See: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/CO.html#COPA
My suggestion to use <lb/> with a type attribute indicating whether
it is a substitution for a begin paragraph or an end paragraph allows
for the full semantic of <p> and </p> (stylesheets can give whatever
meaning they want to either) and gives a nod that most people expect
paragraphs to be stacked and visually separated. Thus a processor
that is unaware of the type attribute will probably give an expected
visual representation.
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