Nested ul and ol elements

Rick Quatro frameexpert at truevine.net
Thu May 17 09:24:37 PDT 2007


Hello Framers,

I need help with text formatting rules in an EDD. Basically, I am allowing 
nesting of ol and ul elements. I need rules that will allow a particular 
format to be called, depending on the nesting level. Here is an example of 
"flat" structure. The text in the element indicates the paragraph format 
used.

<ul>
  <li>bullet1</li>
<ul>

<ol>
  <li>number1</li>
<ol>

For nested ul elements, it is no problem. In theory, I can do the same thing 
with ol elements (although in practice I don't).

<ul>
  <li>bullet1</li>
  <ul>
    <li>bullet2</li>
    <ul>
      <li>bullet3</li>
      <ul>
        <li>bullet4</li>
      <ul>
    <ul>
  <ul>
<ul>

What I want to be able to do is this

<ul>
  <li>bullet1</li>
  <ol>
    <li>number2</li>
    <ul>
      <li>bullet3</li>
      <ol>
        <li>number4</li>
      <ol>
    <ul>
  <ol>
<ul>

or this

<ol>
  <li>number1</li>
  <ul>
    <li>bullet2</li>
    <ul>
      <li>bullet3</li>
      <ol>
        <li>number4</li>
      <ol>
    <ul>
  <ul>
<ol>

or any combination of nested ol and ul elements. I am having trouble 
devising the correct text formatting rules. Any help or pointers would be 
appreciated. Thanks.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com




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