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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] xref parent elements

From: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
To: <donna@terpsichore.ws>, <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 09:27:44 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Robinson 
> 
> Is there a good reason why <option> and <computeroutput>
> should not be able to contain <xref linkend .../>
> 
> <programlisting>, <literallayout>, <screen> are all 'legal' parents, 
> so why not these two ?


I don't really know why, but in DocBook 5.0 (working draft, not yet stable)
this has changed. Both <option> and <computeroutput> can now contain <xref>.
See http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/docbook.html.

/MJ

References:
- xref parent elements
  - From: Donna Robinson <donna@terpsichore.ws>