[pmwiki-users] Definition lists with multiple definitions

[Dominique Faure]

On 9/9/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:24:55PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:20:12AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:00:23PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > > :term:definition
> > > > ::second definition
> > > >
> > > > While this "fakes" a second definition, it doesn't use correct HTML
> > > > markup for it -- it makes a sequence like this
> > > > [...]
> > > > Is this possible?
> > >
> > > Yes, but there needs to be a space in the term for the second
> > > definition; i.e.:
> > >
> > >     :term:definition
> > >     : :second definition
> > >
> > > The reason is that PmWiki sees "::second definition" as being
> > > a second-level nested definition list item, as opposed to a
> > > first-level definition list item with an empty term.
> >
> > I'm afraid I get exactly the same result when using the
> > "second definition" with a space in the term; it gives a div with
> > class="indent", rather than additional <dd> belonging to the first term.
>
> Odd.  On pmwiki.org, I get (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Definitions)
>
>     :term:definition
>     : :second definition
>     :term:definition
>     :term:definition
>     : :section definition
>
>     <dl><dt>term</dt><dd>definition</dd>
>     <dt> </dt><dd>second definition</dd>
>     <dt>term</dt><dd>definition</dd>
>     <dt>term</dt><dd>definition</dd>
>     <dt> </dt><dd>section definition</dd></dl>
>
> I suspect there's a recipe or something on your site that is
> somehow changing the definition list markup.
>
> (I also thought that we had code in place that would prevent the
> empty "<dt> </dt>" tags from appearing... but apparently I lost
> that somewhere -- perhaps when the leading whitespace code was added.
> I'll have to look into it a bit.)
>

In the meantime, I would love having support for embedded lists as in:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Definitions2

Dom