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Subject: Re: [dita-comment] Public Comment
Hi Hedley, The <ph> element provides what you're looking for, and is the ancestor of the elements you mention. Michael Priestley mpriestl@ca.ibm.com comment-form@oasis-open.org 03/21/2005 07:54 PM Please respond to hedley.finger To dita-comment@lists.oasis-open.org cc Subject [dita-comment] Public Comment Comment from: hedley.finger@myob.com In the framemaker-dita forum and elsewhere I have expressed how important conditional content is to MYOB, and previously suggested some method of allowing unlimited additional condition attributes and values in the %select-attrs; attributes, instead of trying to cram all additional conditions into otherprops. After scanning the DITA Language Reference v. 1.0, I cannot see any element that can be applied like <b> or <u> but has no formatting implications. I am thinking of something like the ubiquitous <span> element in HTML. You need a vanilla, non-formatting inline element like this when you need to apply conditions to a an arbitrary text range within another element such as <p>. Quite often conditions are applied to alternative forms of expression within a sentence, e.g. one condition refers to a singular situation while another refers to a plural situation, and noun, possessive, and verb forms need to agree. In fact, a <span> element should be the ancestor of <b>, <u>, <tt>, etc. so it can be specialised to other inline text formatting if necessary in a custom DTD, e.g. <o> = overline.
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