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Subject: Re: [dita] Bookmap implementation
- From: Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com
- To: "France Baril" <France.Baril@ixiasoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:25:09 +1000
I'm not disagreeing that this is an
issue, but...
The extra layer has poor fallback behaviour
when the bookmap is processed as a regular map (e.g., when being published
to HTML Help or something else that isn't bookish). The standard
would have to be more explicit about how a topicgroup gets rendered when
it is in the ToC (see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/3312
for one discussion about this).
(Can you specialize a domain element
like topicgroup into a structural element like chapter? I thought
that you can't. But topicgroup is pretty basic so it could be faked
by just leaving off the href, which is all a topicgroup really is.)
Would it be possible to permit both
forms of markup that France quoted? The presence or absence of an
href attribute could indicate which was intended. Critically, then
DITA 1.1 wouldn't be delayed. On the other hand, there are still
mapref issues with the proposed markup, and I promised I wouldn't bring
those up until post-1.1.
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Deborah Pickett
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com
"France Baril"
<France.Baril@ixiasoft.com>
2007-02-10 08.59
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Hi, I had looked at the bookmap implementation
earlier and had found it pretty nice, but lately I started looking at it
from an implementation point of view.
Bang, I was slapped in the face. I know it's
late in the process, but I thought I should say something anyway.
In order to allow embedding maps in maps
and to ease manipulation of a single map. I would suggest that we drop
the structure:
Bookmap
preface
chapter
chapter
chapter
appendice
appendice
And get something that is more like:
Bookmap
Preface
Chapters (specialized from topicgroup?)
topicref
topicref
topicref
topicref
Appendices (specialized from topicgroup?)
topicref
topicref
With the current structure, if I want to
add a level around the first 10 chapters, I have to change the element
name for all 10 topicrefs that were previously identified as chapters.
Moreover, it becomes hard to implement maps in maps because you get multiple
chapter levels.
France, who just woke up...
P.S. Feel free to slap me in the face again
for bringing this up now!!!!
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