Subject: Re: XML, Lisp and Meaning
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1 Oct 2000 00:34:31 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <8r60qn$13gng5$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Boris Schaefer  <boris@uncommon-sense.net> wrote:
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| The <ul> unordered list in HTML is nothing other than a set.
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Doesn't the "u" in <ul> *really* mean "unnumbered", not "unordered"??
Yes, I know that the standard refers to <ul> as "unordered", but lists
introduced with <ul> *are* still ordered -- the 1st element comes first,
the 2nd comes second, etc. -- but they're just not displayed with an
explicit ordinal tag like <ol>. And in any case, a browser is certainly
*not* allowed to re-order elements of a <ul>, so I really can't agree
with calling a <ul> a "set"...


-Rob

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