DOCBOOK: RE: Simplified DocBook Q: Nested Section elements

[Peter Brooks <pbrooks@appliedsemantics.com>]

It does, Norm, and thank you - although it doesn't solve my problem that now
arises with the layout that is wanted :) The subsection was to have been
presented before the para belonging to the "higher" section that used it as
a reference (but wasn't a subsection in its own right).

There'll be a way around it...

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: Peter Brooks
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; Peter Brooks (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Simplified DocBook Q: Nested Section elements
> 
> 
> / Peter Brooks <pbrooks@appliedsemantics.com> was heard to say:
> | It appears that if I create a handful of sections to map 
> out the (somewhat
> | known) structure of a document in progress, then create 
> some content in one
> | of the sections (as it is provided to me), if I attempt to 
> nest a section
> | within that section that now has content, it is not 
> possible - the section
> | element is not offered in the list of allowed elements.
> 
> All the sections have to come "last". In other words, if you 
> have this structure:
> 
> <section>
> <title>Some Title</title>
> 
> <!-- point A -->
> 
> <para>Some material</para>
> 
> <!-- point B -->
> 
> </section>
> 
> You can add a new section at "point B" but not at "point A" (because
> that would put the paragraph after the section and that's not
> allowed).
> 
> Does that help?
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
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