Re: [docbook] What is the use of allowing variablelists within variablelists?

[Brad Scott <brad.scott@brambletye-publishing.co.uk>]

Hi Stefan

I've used that construct to capture back-of-book indexes for 
retrospective data conversion jobs when we didn't want to retrofit 
zillions of <indexterm>s.

And for some complex layouts of legal texts.

Brad


On 19/11/2015 11:32, Stefan Knorr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Tom (CCd) and I were wondering about a quirk (?) in the DocBook 5 schema:
> What is the rationale for allowing the following construct?
>
>  <variablelist>
>    <variablelist>
>  [...]
>
> (The same works for other kinds of lists within variablelist.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan.

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