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Subject: RE: [dita] Recommendations for "page break" requests?
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:02, Don Day wrote: > I'm not finding great possibilities in my searches either. Unicode > provides a set of characters that are directives for formatters, but I > REALLY don't want writers to learn about that Pandora's box. PIs would > be much easier to detect and handle in processing, particularly since > they provide an opportunity for conditional use, which a codepoint > does not. Oh, I'm not convinced yet, just working up the nerve to > accept the idea. Are you sure you want to use PI's? - they cannot be validated by Schema or DTD (during the authoring process, too) - if you want to tweak processing of some element, what you do? Insert PI before, after, or inside? Processing attribute in such case is much more intuitive, at least with XSLT - using attribute or element is easier from the authoring perspective: you can define element specialization and enumeration for the value of such attribute. So let us at least consider alternative approach: having special attribute and/or element, with no well-defined semantics, which should be ignored by default. Regards, -- Paul
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