RE: [dita] adding <text> and typographic elements to proposal 13029

["Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>]

OK, so use <ph> if you want e.g. <b> in text that you're reusing by
conref; and if you want special typographic rendering of a
specialization, do that in XSL for the new element. Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 15:06
> To: Bruce Nevin (bnevin); dita
> Subject: Re: [dita] adding <text> and typographic elements to 
> proposal 13029
> 
> Yes, the element type <text>, not #PCDATA.
> 
> My intent is that <text> should be allowed anywhere #PCDATA 
> is allowed, modulo some cases where that would be 
> inappropriate or non-sensical, although none come to mind.
> 
> I believe it would be inappropriate to allow anything other 
> than <text> within <text>, since the point is to support the 
> reuse of text *strings* in context where formatting and other 
> types of elements would be unwanted or inappropriate. There 
> are other elements that satisfy the more general requirement 
> of reusable phrases, namely <ph>.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> E. 
> 
> On 5/26/11 11:07 AM, "Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_1.3_Proposals
> > Re proposal 13029 (Kimber):
> > 
> > (I assume this refers to <text> and not to #PCDATA text.)
> > 
> > In particular, <text> should be permitted in typographic elements.
> > Or should typographic elements be allowed in <text>?
> > 
> > I'll add that to the proposal if there's no objection.
> > 
> >         /B
> > 
> > 
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