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Subject: Re: [docbook] Add topic element to DocBook?
"Johnson, Eric" <Eric.Johnson@iona.com>, 2006-10-26 20:06 -0400: > Way back in the tech hay days, our company went on a big information > mapping kick and now all of our documents have "blocks" as the base > level of structure. We are using <simplesect> as the blocking element > because blocks are atomic. Where does <topic> fit into this sort of > information chunking? Is a <topic> a block or is it a higher level of > structure? I think it's identical to your "block". It's a unit or module of content that can be reused in different combinations with other units/modules. > > As for <tasktopic>, didn't someone say you would be able to > > specifiy a topic type? So why not <topic topictype=task>? > > That seems like a much cleaner approach than the other suggestions. Not if the content model of a task differs from that of a generic topic. --Mike
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