Re: [dita] Formal Imagemaps

[Robert D Anderson <robander@us.ibm.com>]

Hi Gershon - the problem is that imagemap is specialized from the <fig>
element, and fig does not allow fig as a child. So, fig cannot legally
allow imagemap either.

This does mean that the imagemap could legally include a title element on
its own, but it's not part of the specification - you could probably bring
that up as a 1.2 or 1.3 enhancement.

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
(507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787


                                                                           
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One of my clients requires <imagemap> to have a caption. For now, I'll
specialize <fig> by adding <imagemap> as an optional child, but I was
wondering what the rational was for not making <imagemap> available in
<fig>?

PS. I'm not asking for this to be done in DITA 1.1. I just want to
understand the thinking at the time in case I'm missing something here...

Best Regards,
Gershon

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