Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>> By the way, I was surprised, upon reading your comments in the git log,
>> that OpenDocument doesn't support tables within lists.  This seems like
>
>> a silly restriction?  Given that OpenDocument uses XML for its encoding,
>> I would have thought that a hierarchical structure in a document would
>> be trivial to represent.  Do you know what the reasoning was?  Just
>> curious!
>
> You would have to read the DTD for OpenDocument, but I would guess that
> this is similar to the distinction between block-level and inline
> elements in XHTML.  In fact it is exactly the hierarchical nature of
> the definition that makes it possible to prevent the inclusion of higher
> level elements as sub-elements of their children.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

Thanks.
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