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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Allow StartsWith/ContinuationOf on OrderedList?
/ Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> was heard to say: | | <orderedlist id="list1"> | 1 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 2 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 3 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 4 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 5 | <listitem> | | <orderedlist id="list2"> | 1 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 2 | <listitem>...</listitem> | | </orderedlist> | | </listitem> | | </orderedlist> | | | | <orderedlist id="list3" continuation="continues"> | 6 | <listitem id="citem">...</listitem> | 7 | <listitem>...</listitem> | | </orderedlist> | | | | What is the proper value for the numeration of listitem "citem"? | | | | Cannot be "5", I feel obligated to offer the document author | | some way to assert that it is "5", since that is a reasonable | | thing for the author to want to do. | | If you mean 6, Yes, I did. Drat and blast! | the markup so asserts. How not? I think the markup asserts 3: | | <orderedlist id="list1"> | 1 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 2 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 3 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 4 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 5 | <listitem> | | <orderedlist id="list2"> | 1 | <listitem>...</listitem> | 2 | <listitem>...</listitem> | | </orderedlist> | | </listitem> | | </orderedlist> | | | | <orderedlist id="list3" continuation="continues"> | 3 | <listitem id="citem">...</listitem> | 4 | <listitem>...</listitem> | | </orderedlist> I think list2 is the closest preceding list, not list1. | | 2. Add a "ContinuationOf" attribute which is an IDREF to the list | | which the author would like to continue. | | | | Pros: robust; solves the problem | | Cons: slightly more complex; less flexible, you can't just number | | a list starting at 37 because you like the number 37. | | | | I prefer 2. I suppose we could add both 1 and 2, but we've | | generally tried to resist solving problems that people didn't | | claim to have (yet). | | Should be a ulink, not an IDREF. ULink? You want to do this by fragment identifier? I guess that's forward thinking, but I'm not sure I'm ready to go that far. | | If we elect to go with option 2, then we should probably | | deprecate and then remove "Continuation". | | No, continuation is the easy thing. Not if we can't agree on the semantics! :-) | But it's all a good topic for face-to-face. BTW, are | we resolved not to go to summer camp again this year? We've agreed to three meetings, XTech, XML Europe, and XML/MT. No mention of the summer camp. Cheers, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Everything in the univese goes by http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | indirection. There are no straight Member, DocBook Editorial Board | lines.--Emerson
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