Re: [dita-techcomm] User on Yahoo suggests substep as a child of choice

I can bring this up at a TC meeting in the new year. I certainly struggled with this when I was an information developer.

Best,

Kris

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On 12/12/2013 10:46 AM, Bob Thomas wrote:

Hi,

This thread is interesting.

It's clear that authors utilize ordered list to achieve the desired formatting when step-like things are needed within choice and choicetable. Do we contend that having step-like things inside of choice and choicetable are not a valid use-cases? I believe that they are valid use-cases, especially when you consider that Information Mapping advocates this construct in their if-then tables.

If we agree that step-like things within choice and choicetable are valid use-cases, then it would be better to offer the semantically correct element for the use cases in choice and chdesc. I deliberately omitted choption from having substeps because I contend the choption content is to help the reader select among choices.

Ordered list would have to remain in the content model for backward compatibility. But, a newly adopting organization could remove it with a constraint.

I suspect that the current models were arrived at only after lengthy discussion. Should we decide to pursue this, it would be useful to have the rationale for the decisions.

Best Regards,

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