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Subject: Two proposals for nested sections
Since your concern is preventing arbitrary nesting of narrative documents, two solutions present themselves: 1. Limit the nesting levels to some agreeable level that is "enough levels" to satisfy most customers wanting grouping and "not so many levels" as to support arbitrary narrative. This is truly a compromise in the sense that neither party walks away comfortable that their concerns are addressed in the general case. This can be easily achieved in a DTD with e.g. "subsection" and "subsubsection" elements. 2. Limit the nesting in the out-of-box DITA using formally declared constraints or prose. In addition, provide a mechanism whereby a knowledgable specializer can loosen the constraint for their specialization (not, typically, to allow indefinite nesting, but rather to allow the creation of grouping elements in the specialization). The specification can outline the dangers of this loosening and the situations under which we believe it is a good thing. If we can agree that these specializers are (in general) knowledgable and trustworthy then both parties achieve their goal. Paul Prescod
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