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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure
Dave Pawson: >Which would be easier? >a)To provide a mini DTD for 'glue' which then becomes a topic, >b)Process glue content as a special? Most glue really isn't appropriate for treatment as a topic. Topics are supposed to be independently readable, reusable units of titled information organized around a single concept, task, or thing. Transitional text doesn't qualify, and using an otherwise empty topic container for transitional text is misleading, as well as probably invalid (titles are required in topics). Some glue might be at the topic level (like intro and summary topics at the beginning and end of chapters, but for the between-topic stuff (I'm thinking a paragraph or so at most, leading the reader into the next topic) it seems like more trouble than its worth to chunk it out. From the author's point of view, I think it makes sense to store the transitions in the place that the sequence is defined. Topics are stored outside the map so they can be reused by other maps, but there's no such requirement on transitional text. Michael Priestley DITA Specialization Architect mpriestl@ca.ibm.com Dept 833 IBM Canada t/l: 969-3233 phone: 905-413-3233 Toronto Information Development
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