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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: mixing section elements
Aha, ok, thanks, I read that the wrong way. Guess I'll have to figure out another way to mark this up :( Just curious: what was the reasoning behind this? cheers, roel Jeff Beal wrote: > Actually, the DTD does indicate that you can't mix section types within a > single element. For example, the content model for <chapter/> has > (sect1*|refentry*|section*|simplesect*). In order to be able to > mix-and-match section types, the content model would have to include > (sect1|refentry|section|simplesect)*. > > Jeff Beal > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roel Vanhout [mailto:roel@riks.nl] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:27 AM > To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: mixing section elements > > > Hi all, > > After my last question about a chunking problem I had I got the useful > suggestion to use <simplesect> for sections I didn't want to chunk > (thanks Jannig!). I wrote it with vim, tried it on my machine, worked > fine; stylesheets seem to accept it ok. But then I passed the file to > the author that will work on the document. She's using (evaluating for > the moment) Arbortext's Epic editor to edit the document, and it > complained that <simplesect> was out of context when it's parent node > also had <sect1> or <section> elements, eg like this: > > <chapter> > <title>Example title</title> > <sect1><para>Test para</para></sect1> > <simplesect><para>Another test para</para></simplesect> > </chapter> > > I also couldn't add a <simplesect> element as a sibling to a <sect1>, > <sect2> or <section> element through Epic's GUI. > I looked through the documentation (tdg) and looked at the content model > of chapter, and although I'm not an expert at reading dtd's, it looks > like my example should be valid. Now, the dtd that Epic uses is that for > DocBook 4.0; has this changed in the mean time? Did I read the content > model wrong? Any hints? Thanks! > > cheers, > > roel
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