Re: div and p

On 13/01/17 15:16, Paul Schaffner wrote:
> Right. divs are semantic / structural units, which may or may not
> be indicated by visible markers in the print source. It is not only
> possible but extremely common to have divs without heads, trailers,
> openers, arguments, or any div-liminal elements at all, or indeed
> anything but the logical structure of the text.

Yes, I'd agree with that.

> (and OTOH, it is of course common to find head-like objects
> which do not function as the head of any definable div, and
> must therefore be relegated to some other status, e.g.
> note or label.)


Oh that we agree on.  In addition to thinking lots of things are 
<div>s, and that they aren't necessarily in a fixed order (e.g. 
are sidebar divs before, after, between the text divs that they 
intrude into?) I also am more than happy to believe that headings 
might appear 3/4s of the way down a division.  When I encode 
these in TEII rationalise that it is that they are _rendered_ 
3/4s of the way down but that intellectually they are the heading 
for the whole division.  (If they aren't and are a heading for 
only part of it... well then you get back into the situation 
where I would fragment into sub-divs and others might not.)

-James


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