RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: first text in HTML list item should not be a pa ra?

["Bradford, Denis" <denisb at rational dot com>]

Thanks for the clarification about HTML DTD. And you're right, lynx's dump
does the 'right thing' with list items. I'll consider changing my text
conversion tool.

Denis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton
> 
> There is nothing "wrong" with the Docbook generated HTML.
> I respectfully suggest that the author of the HTML to text
> tool is wrong.  The HTML and XHTML DTDs permit both <p> and #PCDATA
> as the first child of <li>, and both are in common use. 
> I believe the intended formatting of either coding is to put the
> mark next to the paragraph.  As you say, graphical browsers
> do this, as do the text browsers lynx and w3m (both of
> which support -dump).  Maybe you should change your text
> browser.
> 
> Your customization is a fine kludge to get what you want
> when the tool doesn't work they way you think it should.  8^)
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