Posted by Ben C on 11/17/07 09:43

On 2007-11-17, Jonathan N. Little <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
> richard wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:19:33 -0500, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>>> It's a margins setting as you have been told, but how can your page have
>>> *more than one* level one header?
>>
>> because I told it to, dipshit.
>> The header is nothing more than a fixed font size. No rules say you can use
>> it only once.
>
>
> Excuse me? No, a heading is a *heading* not a header, and it does have
> semantic meaning, I guess you had trouble with outlines when you did
> your research papers in school, eh?
>
> H# elements are used for the hierarchal headings in a document, and
> should not be used to format the font size of some text. That is what
> CSS is for...
>
> .special { font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; ... }

Even if headings are supposed to be strictly hierarchical, you could
still have two top level headings in a document-- just two trees of
headings side by side. You would need another rule like XML's
requirement of having exactly one root element per document.

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