RE: [dita] Complexity of bookmap content model

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

Can you give a concrete example of a book that has appendices in parts?
What does the overall TOC look like and why was it important to put the
appendices in parts?

A consequence of the model you propose is that there is nothing to force
appendices to appear at the end of the book.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia.Gee-Best@Sun.COM [mailto:Patricia.Gee-Best@Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:45 PM
> To: Robert D Anderson
> Cc: Patricia.Gee-Best@Sun.COM; JoAnn Hackos; 
> dita@lists.oasis-open.org; Paul Prescod
> Subject: Re: [dita] Complexity of bookmap content model
> 
> Robert, et al:
> 
> Two items I would like to propose.
> 
> 1. Would very much like to see appendices included in the 
> content model for <part>.  As with chapters, which can 
> precede the first part or be included in a part, we would 
> like to see appendices treated similarly. 
> The difference is that any appendices external to a part 
> would follow the last part, and precede <backmatter>.
> 
> In our hardware manuals, when parts are used, appendices are 
> frequently included in the last part of the manual.
> 
> To accomplish that I believe the only item that would need to 
> change would be the following, which includes <appendix> in <part>:
> 
>   <!ELEMENT part (topicmeta?, (chapter | appendix | topicref)*)>