Re: [dita] Question about DITA 1.2 item 12021

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

> I would certainly expect bodydiv to be available anywhere within body,
> not just where section is allowed, since it is not necessarily
> structural in the sense that section is, but may be used to simply group
> things for some purpose specific to a given author or specialization.

The tricky part is that bodydiv allows section. So, allowing it at any
location in conbody adds the ability to place sections before other random
content:
<conbody>
  <bodydiv><section>1st</section></bodydiv>
  ...other block content...
  <section>2nd</section>
</conbody>

That may be a necessary evil, if in fact it is an evil, but it does loosen
up the concept model in a way that has not been specifically addressed. So,
I felt it needed to be called out. Any other opinions on this one?

Thanks,

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

Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com> wrote on 04/09/2008 11:07:53 AM:

> Robert D Anderson wrote:
>
> > 2) The attributes for sectiondiv and bodydiv are not described. I plan
to
> > use univ-atts and outputclass.
>
> That seems appropriate to me.
>
> > 3) Should bodydiv be added to the content model for conbody or refbody?
If
> > added to conbody, should it be available only at the end, mixed with
> > sections and examples? Currently, sections and examples can only be
used at
> > the end of conbody. I plan to leave bodydiv out of these models unless
I
> > hear otherwise.
>
> I would certainly expect bodydiv to be available anywhere within body,
> not just where section is allowed, since it is not necessarily
> structural in the sense that section is, but may be used to simply group
> things for some purpose specific to a given author or specialization.
>
> > 4) Should sectiondiv be added to the content model of refsyn or the
various
> > section specializations in task? That seems logical, but I have not
added
> > it yet because I am not instructed to do so in the proposal. If it is
added
> > to the "section.cnt" and "section.notitle.cnt" entities, which seems
> > correct, this will happen by default. That would also mean changing
> > <example> to use its own entity, rather than reusing section.cnt.
>
> Again, I would expect sectiondiv to be available within any
> specialization of section where it wasn't obviously inappropriate
> (because the section specialization was very highly specialized, for
> example).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>
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