RE: [dita] Booklibrary

["Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@xmetal.com>]

How does the booklibrary element compare to the (comment out?) library
element?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul.prescod@xmetal.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:31 PM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] Booklibrary
> 
> I can't find much information on the purpose or design of this bookmap
> element. I looked in the following places: Google [1], A bookmap
> reference on the OASIS site [2], bookmap.mod .
> 
> Overall, I am concerned that bookmap seems to segment the title
element
> into what are essentially sub-titles in a manner that seems a bit
fishy
> from a specialization point of view. The generalization and publishing
> process will just smush the various titles into a single string. One
way
> to think about the issue "visually" is that titles are block elements
> read independently. But booklibrary, mainbooktitle and booktitlealt
> specialize ph which is an inline element. Inline elements are meant to
> be read always within the context of their parent element.
> 
>  Paul Prescod
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=booklibrary+dita&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-
> 8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
> 
> [2]
>
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18073/new-bookmap-book
> .pdf
>