RE: [dita] <text> element (#12020)

["Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com>]

Sounds as if <ph> should be a specialization of <text>.  We are probably trapped by the past, however. 

 

I wonder of <text> should be a specialization of anything or just a new addition to the base element set for topics and maps.

 

    -Jeff

 

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From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:55 AM
To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [dita] <text> element (#12020)

 

“text” is a specialization of phrase that serves two purposes:

1.   Allows content model constraints (e.g., (data, text) rather than (data | ph))

2.   Makes the semantic clear (i.e., just a container of PCDATA with no other meaning or presentation expectation

 

Cheers,

 

E.

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W. Eliot Kimber

Senior Solutions Architect

Really Strategies, Inc.

512 554 9368

 

From: Ogden, Jeff [mailto:jogden@ptc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:49 AM
To: Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [dita] <text> element (#12020)

 

What is the difference between <ph> and <text>?  Are both needed? 

 

   -Jeff