[osis-core] <p>

[Patrick Durusau]

Troy,

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> Would you hate me if I asked for the ability to have and empty <p>?

Won't hate you! Do wonder why your use case requires <p />?

>
> use case:  I'm marking up a fragment that has a paragraph break, but I 
> don't want to (know the) bound either above or below.  It would be 
> useful to at least have a <p />.
>
Is this one of those "formatting/display" things I keep hearing about? ;-)

Where does this leave you if there is some other break? Quotation, page, 
column, etc.?

My suggestion would be to use <milestone type="pBreak"> so you can 
consistenly have cBreak (for columns), pbBreak (for pages), etc. Seems 
like it would be better to have a common solution to the breaking 
problem that you could plan on being used rather than having the empty 
<p>. I know that is what has been used in HTML for years for 
formatting/display, but it was bad practice then (even when I have done 
it) and time has not improved my opinion of it.

Do you see any downsides to using the <milestone> as indicated? I was 
thinking you would have to treat <p /> as a special case from the usual 
<p> some text </p> anyway so I was thinking using the milestone would 
not create any extra effort.

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu