Re: Add topic element to DocBook?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Steve Cogorno <Steven.Cogorno@Sun.COM> was heard to say:
| Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
|> What content model would Tasktopic have?
|> 
|> And "tasktopic" ain't a pretty name. What about naming it
|> "process" or "operation" instead? (Yeah I know those stink too,
|> but they stink less than "tasktopic".)
|
| I strongly believe that task should be in the name of the element.  It's
| important for people to associate the tasktopic with task.
|
| I would also be in favor of simply adding task as a peer to topic, but I
| suspect others would not agree.

I suppose if we agreed to remove task as a block element, we could
simpy use the name "task" for the peer of topic. It would seem truely
odd however to allow:

  <topic>
    <para>...</para>
    <task>...</task>
    <para>...</para>
  <topic>
  <task>
    ...
  </task>
  <topic>
    ...
  </topic>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Endurance is frequently a form of
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | indecision.--Elizabeth Bibesco
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

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