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Subject: DITA 1.1 issue #19: <generic-task> and <generic-taskbody>
From: "Esrig, Bruce (Bruce)" <esrig@lucent.com>
To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:00:12 -0400
This is to capture the proposal for approval for design to add a new element between <topic> and <task>. A filled-in template will be created separately, based on work already done by Indi Liepa.

For the purposes of this proposal, we can call the new element <generic-task>.

  task ::= (title then (titlealts) (optional) then (shortdesc) (optional) then (prolog) (optional) then (taskbody) (optional) then (related-links) (optional) then (topic or concept or task or reference) (any number) ) 

<generic-task> will generalize <task>.

  generic-task ::= (title then (titlealts) (optional) then (shortdesc) (optional) then (prolog) (optional) then (generic-taskbody) (optional) then (related-links) (optional) then (topic or concept or task or reference) (any number) ) 

It will contain a new element <generic-taskbody> from which <taskbody> can be specialized.

  taskbody ::= ( (prereq) (optional) then (context) (optional) then (steps or steps-unordered) (optional) then (result) (optional) then (example) (optional) then (postreq) (optional) )

<generic-taskbody> will contain the same contents as <taskbody>, except: where <taskbody> has (<steps> or <steps-unordered>), <generic-taskbody> would allow arbitrary body contents. (Among the contents of <body>, it's hard to know what to exclude.)

  generic-taskbody ::= ( (prereq) (optional) then (context) (optional) then (*** body contents***) (optional) then (result) (optional) then (example) (optional) then (postreq) (optional) )

  body ::= (p or lq or note or dl or parml or ul or ol or sl or pre or codeblock or msgblock or screen or lines or fig or syntaxdiagram or imagemap or image or object or table or simpletable or required-cleanup or section or example) (any number)

Best wishes,

Bruce

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