Re: Value attribute for the listitem tag in docbook?

Dear Hussein,

Small follow-up

I've just filed an issue at https://github.com/docbook/docbook/issues/222

I looked into the possibility / workaround of ending the current <
orderedlist> and starting a new <orderedlist> when a value attribute is
present.

   - When the value attribute occurs with an item *after *the first item it
   looks like to work, we have to remember the numeration but that should
   be possible
   - When the value attribute is *with *the first item the problem is (due
   to the way of the implementation, the <orderedlist> is already opened
   before the first item) that we would have an empty first <orderedlist>
   with a warning like:

   unfinished element This is a more difficult problem, but would probably
   be solvable as well.



Best Regards,

Albert

On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:17 AM Albert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Hussein,
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> I agree with " I'm not sure a lot of authors need this low-level feature."
> , but the number of users is in my opinion not relevant, it is the
> functionality that counts.
>
> I'll checkout the mailing lists , in the mean time I also found
> https://github.com/docbook/docbook/ and maybe an issue here will be
> sufficient (also seen the reaction to the unrelated:
> https://github.com/docbook/docbook/issues/219)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Albert
>
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:10 AM Hussein Shafie <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/1/21 17:46, Albert wrote:
>> >
>> > Thank you for your answer, the options startingnumber (equivalent to
>> the
>> > HTML attribute start of the ol tag) and numeration ( equivalent to the
>> > HTML attribute type of the ol tag) are known to me (as reference:
>> > https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp
>> > <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp>) and have already been
>> > implemented.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>>
>>
>> > We are talking here about the value attribute of the li tag (as
>> > reference: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp
>> > <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp>) in this way it is
>> possible
>> > to set inside a list (probably quite uncommon) the value of the current
>> > item (and consequently the start for the next set of items.
>>
>> I'm not sure a lot of authors need this low-level feature. HTML
>> li/@value just looks like a low-level variant of DocBook
>> orderedlist/@startingnumber. I mean, IMHO, DocBook
>> orderedlist/@startingnumber is a fine solution for the vast majority of
>> needs (and orderedlist/@continuation="continues", an even better
>> solution).
>>
>>
>>
>> > It would be nice that this would be in the xmlmind docbook editor but
>> > this requires probably that it should be in the docbook specifications
>> > first.
>>
>> That's right.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Are there plans for this (to your knowledge)
>>
>> No, not to my knowledge.
>>
>>
>>
>> > or where should this  be requested?
>> >
>> I'm sorry but I don't know. May be mailing list
>> [email protected] or [email protected] ? See
>> https://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php
>>
>


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