Referencing orginal documents, When to use <p></p>

Chuck Foster (chuck@pipex.net)
Sat, 16 Dec 1995 13:23:37 +0000


Hi,

A couple of questions that have been niggling me for a while now.

1. Reference to original articles

I quite often revamp news articles into HTML for reference purposes
on my pages (generally announcements and that kind of thing).
I have recently started to add LINKs to various parts, and was
wondering what I should use for a reference back to the article. The
closest I think to what I want currently is:

<link href="news:article-id" rev=citation>

Is there something better?

2. <p>..</p> mixed with <ul>..</ul> etc

One of the things that I get confused over is when to use </p>, if at
all. For example, I might be writing something and then make a couple
of points:

<p>
blah blah, for example:
<ul>
<li>one
<li>two
</ul>
and then blah blah.
</p>

Would that be correct, or should it really be a:

<p>
blah blah, for example:
</p>
<ul>
<li>one
<li>two
</ul>
<p>
and then blah blah.
</p>

This is a simple example of course. Other examples are page lists,
which might be:

<h2> </h2>
<ul>
<li>
</ul>

Should a <p> .. </p> be there too?

Should I even bother with </p>?!!!

Thanks for any pointers!
Chuck