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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] Questions about RFE 3368279
"Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> writes: > In other words, keep title and info and make the block and section > content optional, not required. Ok. That seems a little less violent :-) > 2. Regarding the list of elements, I had intended to include > hierarchical elements that are likely to be modularized, so I would > include sect1 through sect5 and simplesect, although I doubt > simplesect would be further modularized in practice. Ok. > Now that you mention it, part and partintro should be included too. Ok. > I had not intended to include refentry and refsection, as a refentry > is a cleanly defined module already. It differs from topic because > topic can be used in a structure hierachy to morph into other > structure elements using renderas. I would include reference, > because refentry elements are certainly modules and reference > currently requires at least one refentry. Ok. > I had not intended to include non-hierarchical elements like > procedure, blockquote, sidebar, or other titled elements. Those are > unlikely to be modularized in a structure. Ok. > 3. So I'm not proposing "Required bag of stuff" OR "empty", I'm proposing "Only title required". 8^) Got it. > I personally don't think it is necessary to customize this just for > assembly. Creating a chapter with just a title and no other content > may not be very useful, but it does not violate the rules of a > hierarchical structure. And it can be useful in the early stages. > When I write in DocBook, I often create my whole hierarchy with just > titles, but I currently must add empty paras so it validates. With > this change, I won't have to add the empty paras to get started. 8^) Ok. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Life is an irritation--Tucker Case http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | (Christopher Moore) Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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