Re: DOCBOOK: Allow StartsWith/ContinuationOf on OrderedList?

[Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>]

| 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.

No, the end tag for list1 closes the (in this case
immediately preceding) list, list1.  That's very clear
to me, but if it isn't to you, then we should improve the
language.  Is there a computational problem here?

| | | 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.

Well, not ulink, which is an element, but something like that
as an attribute.  We can wait for xlink.

| | | 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! :-)

True.  But we can, eventually.

| | 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.

Xcellent.

regards, Terry