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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: New element for Step alternatives?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Steve Cogorno <cogorno@village.eng.sun.com> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh said: |> If you don't allow stepalternatives at the top level, you've made the |> first step in a procedure different from all the other steps. I don't |> see any compelling reason to do that. | | Please excuse me for jumping in the middle of this discussion mid-stream, | especially on my first posting to the DocBook alias. Now that I am | representing Sun Microsytems, I'd like to clarify a bit what we were asking | for in proposing the step alternatives. Hi Steve! :-) |> I don't see how that's the case. If procedure is: |> |> <!ELEMENT procedure (..stuff.., (step+|stepalternatives))> | | The model we proposed was: | | <!ELEMENT procedure (...stuff..., (step+))> | <!ELEMENT step (...stuff..., stepalternatives?))> Where do substeps fit in? And do you really think it's wrong to allow stepalternatives at the top level? | Here's an psuedo-example that demonstrates the need that we have: | | 1. Create a new user account on the system. | 2. Set the password for this account using one of the following | methods: | - Using the administration GUI, select "Set Password." | - Modify the /etc/shadow file to contain the new password. Right. I think that's probably: <procedure> <step>Create a new user account on the system.</step> <step>Set the password for this account using one of the following methods: <stepalternatives> <step>Using the administration GUI, select "Set Password."</step> <step>Modify the /etc/shadow file to contain the new password.</step> </stepalternatives> </step> </procedure> Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | To create a little flower is the http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | labour of ages.--Blake Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE9/0vIOyltUcwYWjsRAnBcAJ9TrBRTabJyqufiSTHmS3YzGdHXdgCbBZpK ca+c28as2wgqBsL6gR9PIKE= =S9GA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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