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Subject: Re: [dita] Status of Nested Sections Issue


Esrig, Bruce (Bruce) wrote:
> The agreement on nested sections, as I recall it, was that each topic
> can contain one-user-defined heading (the title of the section). Aside
> from that, a separate intermediate heading level would be defined both
> above and below section to permit auto-generated headings.
> Specialization of the language and processing would be use to obtain the
> auto-generated headings.

I obviously wasn't paying attention at the time but I don't find this to 
be a particularly attractive solution, for the simple reason that it 
both requires specialization and presumes an unreasonble degree of 
formality and regularity in the data. And it still imposes an arbitrary 
limit in how detailed your division hierarchy is, which I find to be 
counter to the very notion of a general standard (but that's largely a 
meta-argument about what is and is not appropriate for something like 
DITA to constrain).

If you're saying that 1.1 is closed with respect to issues then I'll 
just wait for 1.2.

But if 1.1 is about making DITA more appropriate for more traditional 
technical publications I would think that addressing this would be as 
compelling as getting indexing correct.

Cheers,

Eliot
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