Re: Lists/Lists within Lists using div/span

[Henry Thompson <ht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Glenn R. Kronschnabl" <grk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am having difficulty figuring out the right way to display lists and 
> lists-within-lists, ie.,
> . . .
> I think its an xslj problem, but I am not certain.  It appears not to use the 
> 'text-indent' in the embedded list but does take the margin-top: 
> 4pt;margin-bottom: 4pt; attributes.

As I read the CSS Recommendation, 'text-indent' should be inherited,
but neither IE4 nor Communicator4 (for UN*X) appear to implement it
this way.

> But more importantly, what will be the right way in XSL?  From the docs it 
> appears that one is supposed to use div/span?  But is it?

There is no 'right way', but you certainly CAN do it that way.  The
use of DIV and SPAN in the samples in the XSLJ distribution is
illustrative, not normative.

ht
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