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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: New element for Step alternatives?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> was heard to say: | Substeps and the proposed Stepalternatives are containers for | steps. What I'm suggesting is that we add a parallel generalized | step container, with the same simple (step+) content model, for | wrapping sets-of-steps-that-aren't-substeps. Why? What purpose does this new container have? I think your argument has been that it would allow users to identify sets-of-steps for reuse (by pointing to the single wrapper). While that's true... | The fact that two or more steps in a row, by themselves, form a | logical division -- a group of steps -- is something that I think | ought to be expressible/capturable through markup, and so through | a content model in the DTD. There are very few semantically meaningless wrappers for grouping things in DocBook. I could apply the same arguments to a series of three paragraphs or to two figures and a table. Maybe we need to consider the reuse question in more detail, but if we're going to, I'd like to do it separately and globally, not as part of a small enhancement to procedure. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Consistency requires you to be as http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | ignorant today as you were a year Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | ago.--Bernard Berenson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE98RsbOyltUcwYWjsRAo6ZAKCdQ+FEFVRE99y6WTq2XSoO7X+dTQCdF2Hu 5y0tJVgpq6RTD9ZQkH6exIk= =FnNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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