Hi,
When reviewing the SPDX XML files, I see many licenses that contain nested
lists such as:
1) some text...
a) some text...
And these are converted to XML like this:
<list>
<li>
<b>1)</b><p>some text...</p>
</li>
</list>
<list>
<li>
<b>a)</b><p>some text...</p>
</li>
</list>
Note that the XML above places the bullets sequentially rather than being
nested. I would like to check, does the XML syntax support nesting, and if so,
should we be using it to represent cases such as this?
To make it clearer, this is how the nested equivalent of the above might look,
with the a) list inside the 1) list:
<list>
<li>
<b>1)</b><p>some text...</p>
</li>
<list>
<li>
<b>a)</b><p>some text...</p>
</li>
</list>
</list>
My view is that by representing nested lists sequentially then we are losing
some of the structure of the original text. On the other hand, if the main
purpose of the lists is to allow for identification of bullets then the
sequential representation is just fine for this.
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