Re: modernizing html output

[Per Bothner]

On 1/2/19 11:40 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 01:14:28PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> > It wraps all nodes (anything processed by _convert_heading_command) in a <div> 
> > block.
>
> Previously you wanted to have different <div>'s for @chapter and @node:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00056.html
>
> > I suggest two categories of <div> elements:
> > A "node" includes all the content of a single node,
> > but *not* sub-nodes.leaves unanswered
> > A "chapter" or "section" (or "part" or whatever) <div>
> > encloses the current node - and sub-nodes.
>
> This is not what your patch implemented, though.  The "node" <div> only
> surrounds the navigation bar.  The "chapter" <div> doesn't start until
> after the navigation bar, and does not enclose sub-ordinate sections.
> See test file and output.

Indeed you're right. It wasn't as obvious when I looked at multi-page output.

Not sure how to do better, but I believe the DocBook output generates the
correctly nested elements, so it is presumably feasible.

I'll take a look, but if you have a suggestion that would be great.

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