[Zope] RFC: Flaws in Structured text

[Olivier Deckmyn]

I agree with theese purposes on Structured Text...

I would like to be able to write simple tables with Structured Text.
Something like :

| FirstName | LastName | Age |
| Olivier | Deckmyn | 25 |
| Guido | Van Rossum | 32 |
| Linus | Torvald | 29 |

That will build a simple table :
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>FirstName</td><td>LastName</td><td>Age</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Olivier </td><td>Deckmyn</td><td>25</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Guido</td><td>Van Rossum</td><td>32</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Linus </td><td>Torvald </td><td>29</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Customization could be done with CSS...

Thanx !

----- Message d'origine -----
De : Geir B Hansen <geirh@funcom.com>
À : Alexander Staubo <alex@mop.no>
Cc : Zope Mailing List (E-mail) <zope@zope.org>
Envoyé : lundi 13 mars 2000 10:38
Objet : Re: [Zope] RFC: Flaws in Structured text


> on Monday, March 13, 2000 Alexander Staubo wrote :
> AS> I would like to outline a few problems, based on
> AS> observations of real-world usage, with Structured text.
> AS> Comments are appreciated.
>
> AS> As much as I like the format, the current syntax is either
> AS> too loose, or the transformation logic too dumb, resulting
> AS> in text that does not come out quite as expected. There are
> AS> workarounds for all such problems, but authors and editors
> AS> aren't aware of them, and continually make the same mistakes
> AS> over and over again.
>
> ...[snip]
>
> I agree with your points, but what is more important for me,
> is that the rendered HTML is syntatically correct
>
> * this is an item
>
> * another item
>
> * a third item
>
> currently renders as :
>
> <ul>
> <li><p>this is an item</p>
> <li><p>another item</p>
> <li><p>a third item</p>
> </ul>
>
> which is not very slick.. I'd prefer a forward-compatible
> list-rendering format, complying with HTML4.0 and XHTML,
> looking like this :
>
> <ul>
> <li>this is an item</li>
> <li>another item</li>
> <li>a third item</li>
> </ul>
>
> Anybody who has tried to make Netscape4.x understand CSS
> without properly closing tags will understand my point..
>
> --
> Geir Bækholt Hansen
> web-developer/designer
> geirh@funcom.com
> http://www.funcom.com
>
>
>
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