Order for nested lists ?

[Vincent Osele]

Hello,

I have a bullet list that include another bullet list.
With sdocbook (I think with other format also), i generate this:
<itemizedlist>
  <listitem>first item level 1</listitem>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>first item level 2</listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>

This is badly converted to html from docbook because (I think) it must be:
<itemizedlist>
  <listitem>first item level 1
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>first item level 2</listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
The second itemizedlist is a part of the itemlist and is embed in it definition.

I correct this with a new transition to remove the extra closed item:
<transition start="Slb2" key="lb2" end="Slb1" again="1">
    <before>
        <tt_null/> <!-- instead close item -->
    </before>
    <after>
        <tt_null/>
    </after>
</transition>
And added the need closed item here:
        <transition start="Slb3" again="1">
            <before>
                <tt_list>
                    <tt_element tag="ul" endtag="1"/>
                    <tt_string text="&#10;"/>
<!-- Close upper tag not ended -->
<tt_element tag="li" endtag="1"/>
<tt_string text="&#10;"/>
                </tt_list>
            </before>
            <after>
                <tt_null/>
            </after>
        </transition>

It seems to work but not sure in all cases (particulary with numbered list nested with bullet ones...)

[Arne Jans]

There are transitions for the case of numbered lists nested with bullet ones. I dont remember which they are at the moment.

Feel free to experiment with it.

[Mark McAulay]

Hi Arne, do you understand the transitions for bullet points?
They didn't seem to be complete as instances of three-level bullet points would cause majix to hang. I was mapping custom bullet points to the standard bullet points in the .sty file.

I have tried adding more transitions which has worked, but not in all cases.

I don't understand what exactly the states mean in:
_automaton.defineTransition(statelb1, statelb2, "lb1",RE + "<li><pa>", true, "</pa>" + RE, NOAGAIN, NOPUSH);
_automaton.defineTransition(statelb1, statelb3, "lb2", RE + "<ul>" + RE, false, null, AGAIN, PUSH);

Why only start the list when going from lb1 to lb3? Wouldn't you want to start the list when going from 1 to 2? or maybe statelb1 and statelb2 don't match exactly to the tags?
Thanks,
Mark.