Re: [Refdb-users] html output

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Jan 27, 2004, at 7:32 PM, Marc Herbert wrote:

>>> While I've not experimented with it, I suppose it would offer even 
>>> more
>>> flexibility to use spans throughout, such as where you're currently
>>> using p tags...
>>
>> What is the particular advantage of this approach?
>
> I guess the motivation here is: <span>s are completely neutral, they
> do not carry any meaning at all, thus they offer more "flexibility":
> the CSS can do whatever it wants with them.
> On the other hand, <p> mean "this is a paragraph", which may not be
> wanted. Correct me if I that was not what you meant.

It all really depends of what we feel is the best way to render web 
output.  Using p tags suggest one way, but spans another (more suitable 
to the example that Matt posted).  I'm working on xslt rendering of 
this stuff, so I'd appreciate feedback on what people feel is ideal 
here...

Bruce