[osis-core] terms, definitions

[Steve DeRose]

At 11:59 AM -0400 06/25/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>What I was trying to avoid is having one software project use <label> and
><item>, another use <div type="definition"><title>..</title><p>...</p></div>
>or whatever. It would be helpful if there were standard markup
>recommendations
>for such standard types of documents.


Good point....


>
>One possible way of handling terms and definitions or dictionary entries,
>as you suggest, would be to recommend in the documentation that you should
>use <label type="term"> and <item type="def">.  But then the type attribute
>is "used up" and can't be used for a formatting type, unless you start
>encoding more information into it:  <item type="def:longformat">

Hmmmmm
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