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Subject: Re: [dita] Mixed content in DITA
Don Day wrote: > When planning for specialization, the content model of section was given > particular thought. It was realized that specializers could easily remove > the PCDATA and thereby enable new constraints on the optionality and > sequence of the remaining block content. The only other option was to > introduce a "sectionbody" subcontainer after section title, and this was > felt to be overloading the design. If you specialized the title away, you > would end up with a required sectionbody that is the only child of > section--an odd vestigial structure for subsequent specializations. At the same time I would like the ability to have specializations with a "sectionbody" subcontainer--this is the pattern I use in virtually all my techdoc document types. So I would like topic to *allow* (but not require) a sectionbody-type element that is part of the base topic content model (and not something I create by specializing "p" or something silly like that). This would complicate the architectural content model (essentially providing two paths--the current unconstrained one or a more rigorous one) but would enable more options for specialized topics. Cheers, Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 9390 Research Blvd, #410 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 372-8155 ekimber@innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com
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