RE: [docbook] <footnote> context

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

<rob.cavicchio@emc.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone have insight into why <footnote> is not allowed inside
> > arbitrary inline elements? Here is a possible use case:
> >
> > <filename>%WINDIR%<footnote><para>Windows
> > folder</para></footnote>\SYSTEM32\</filename>

Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk] wrote:
> In this case, the Windows folder content isn't part of the footnote,
> hence should be outside of it?
> suggest it is applicable in the more general purpose inline elements
> such as phrase, which it is.


I don't understand what you mean by "the Windows folder content isn't part of the footnote". The footnote text is "Windows folder".


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