Re: [dita-adoption] FW: [dita] allowing appendices to be grouped

[Joann Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Many of the projects we work on have this requirement. Grouping appendices
into a part would be a very nice addition.
JoAnn


On 3/3/09 6:56 AM, "Gershon Joseph" <gerjosep@cisco.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This question came up on the DITA TC list this week and I'd like to
> solicit input from the Adoption TC on whether this is a wide-spread
> requirement. Perhaps we could discuss this at our next meeting.
> 
> Please let me have your thoughts via email or prepare to discuss
> tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks!
> Gershon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:08 PM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] allowing appendices to be grouped
> 
> We have some customers who want to be able to group their appendices in
> their bookmap and have a topichead that shows up in the ToC for the
> group of appendices.
> 
> This would parallel the way one can group chapters in a part.
> 
> In fact, the first suggestion was to allow appendix in part.  This would
> be an acceptable solution for our customers.
> 
> Another solution is to add a specialization of topicref called
> "appendices" (or whatever) and change the content of bookmap to be:
> 
> <!ENTITY % bookmap.content
>                        "(((%title;) |
>                           (%booktitle;))?,
>                          (%bookmeta;)?,
>                          (%frontmatter;)?,
>                          (%chapter;)*,
>                          (%part;)*,
>                          ((%appendices;)? | (%appendix;)*),
>                          (%backmatter;)?,
>                          (%reltable;)*)"
>> 
> 
> where appendices has a content model of (%appendix;)*.
> 
> Can the DITA TC consider this issue and see if either or both of these
> solutions is something we can do to bookmap?
> 
> paul
> 
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