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	<title>Comments on: Describing a Semantic Calendar</title>
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		<title>By: Fahed</title>
		<link>http://www.joedolson.com/articles/2006/10/describing-a-semantic-calendar/comment-page-1/#comment-16984</link>
		<dc:creator>Fahed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the feedback.</description>
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		<title>By: Joe Dolson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe Dolson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A definition list is appropriate for any data which is fundamentally a &quot;call and response&quot;/&quot;question and answer&quot; information set. As such, what you&#039;re describing seems like it would be perfectly appropriate. 

I have to say that I think a table would be perfectly acceptable, as well, of course. Semantics aren&#039;t really a fixed feature: for complex data sets, there are commonly multiple appropriate solutions. I could go either way on this particular question!

It&#039;s important not to worry too much about whether you&#039;ve chosen the &quot;right&quot; answer in semantics. Basically, you can always choose to use the wrong element --- but choosing the right one is much more difficult. 

If you can explain your reasoning for a specific element choice from a semantic perspective, you&#039;re fine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A definition list is appropriate for any data which is fundamentally a &#8220;call and response&#8221;/&#8221;question and answer&#8221; information set. As such, what you&#8217;re describing seems like it would be perfectly&nbsp;appropriate. </p>
<p>I have to say that I think a table would be perfectly acceptable, as well, of course. Semantics aren&#8217;t really a fixed feature: for complex data sets, there are commonly multiple appropriate solutions. I could go either way on this particular&nbsp;question!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important not to worry too much about whether you&#8217;ve chosen the &#8220;right&#8221; answer in semantics. Basically, you can always choose to use the wrong element&thinsp;&#8212;&thinsp;- but choosing the right one is much more&nbsp;difficult. </p>
<p>If you can explain your reasoning for a specific element choice from a semantic perspective, you&#8217;re&nbsp;fine.</p>
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		<title>By: Fahed</title>
		<link>http://www.joedolson.com/articles/2006/10/describing-a-semantic-calendar/comment-page-1/#comment-16978</link>
		<dc:creator>Fahed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We are putting together a list of features in a specific area of our site in which each feature has its own html page and all of the features together, however, are presented on an &quot;overview&quot; page.

The immediate approach was to put this together as a table in which the headers were &quot;Feature&quot; &amp; &quot;Benefit&quot;, but came to the conclusion that this is not tabular data and that, being a list of features &amp; summarised benefit, it would be more semantically correct to present them as a list. 

We have never used definition lists before and are not sure whether this would be the right place to use them.

So we would have, as an example, dt of &#039;speed&#039; with a dl of &#039;so you can get from a to b in time for dinner&#039;. Would this be correct and, if so, what about what we would have used as table headers (i.e. feature &amp; benefit) - do they also fall in this category?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are putting together a list of features in a specific area of our site in which each feature has its own <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> page and all of the features together, however, are presented on an &#8220;overview&#8221;&nbsp;page.</p>
<p>The immediate approach was to put this together as a table in which the headers were &#8220;Feature&#8221; <span class="amp">&amp;</span> &#8220;Benefit&#8221;, but came to the conclusion that this is not tabular data and that, being a list of features <span class="amp">&amp;</span> summarised benefit, it would be more semantically correct to present them as a&nbsp;list. </p>
<p>We have never used definition lists before and are not sure whether this would be the right place to use&nbsp;them.</p>
<p>So we would have, as an example, dt of &#8216;speed&#8217; with a dl of &#8216;so you can get from a to b in time for dinner&#8217;. Would this be correct and, if so, what about what we would have used as table headers (i.e. feature <span class="amp">&amp;</span> benefit) - do they also fall in this&nbsp;category?</p>
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