Re: [dita] LwDITA subcommittee response: content model for <dd>

[Bob Thomas <bob.thomas@tagsmiths.com>]

Thank you, Alan. I am willing to table my concerns and defer to the subcommittee.

Best Regards

Bob

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Alan Houser <arh@groupwellesley.com> wrote:

Colleagues,

At least one DITA TC member raised an issue about the appropriateness of the LwDITA content model for definition lists. (Bob Thomas, to give credit). Specifically, should the description/definition component (<dd>) allow nested <dl> and <simpletable>?

The Lightweight DITA Subcommittee discussed this on June 14*. The subcommittee's consensus is that the current content model is appropriate:

- One can envision reasonable use cases for allowing <dl> and <simpletable> in a definition.

- Forbidding nesting of <dl> would require some amount of architectural effort.

- The content model maps to the HTML5 content model for description lists.

I trust this provides the DITA TC sufficient information to close the issue.

-Alan

* Minutes of the June 14 meeting are at:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-lightweight-dita/download.php/61085/LwDITA%20Meeting%20Minutes%20for%20June%2014,%202017.txt

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