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Subject: Re: [dita] Clarification of <itemgroup>
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com wrote: > How do we discourage people from using this <div>-like element to fake > nested sections, or paragraphs-within-paragraphs? Using XML Schema or > DTD descriptions of content models, we probably can't. You can't. It's simply a fact inherent in anything as general as DITA that you can't prevent the possibility of abuse. The away to avoid this type of abuse is to create specializations that disallow it. This is one reason that I content that trying to make the base DITA topic types genuinely appropriate for authoring is misguided, for the simple reason that the things you'd do for authors are at odds with what you need to allow for specialization. Right now DITA tries to do both and you end up with situations like this one. Note, however, that neither of my proposals would allow <title> within this wrapper, which goes a long way toward preventing abuse for creating ersatz nested sections. But at some point you have no choice but to depend on people doing the right thing. Cheers, Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 8500 N. Mopac, Suite 402 Austin, TX 78759 (214) 954-5198 ekimber@innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com
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