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title: "List"
source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/reference/glossary/list.html
description: "In PageSeeder, 'list' refers to ordered or unordered collections of items in documents. Lists are stored across multiple files with incomplete editing views; formatting like item numbering is applied programmatically during publishing via the process task."
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# List

In PageSeeder terminology, ‘list’ is interpreted as the generic description for ordered `(<nlist>`) or unordered (`<list>`) items (`<item>)`in a document, not as the programming term for a type of data structure.

Because the PageSeeder information architecture is deliberately oriented to documents/[publications](/reference/glossary/publications.md) being composed of multiple files, the editing and storage view of a list is typically incomplete. Additional values such as prefixing items with a heading number aren’t supported for `<item>`, but require a numbered [\<para\>](/psml/elements/element_para.md). When the order of the documents is final and the collection is published, these values are added programmatically by the [process task](/guide/publishing/ant_api/tasks/task_process.md) when the files are sent to a website or [DOCX](/reference/glossary/word_docx_format.md) file.