Re: [docbook-apps] Paragraph content model

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> was heard to say:
> | I wonder what the original reason was, unless it was M$ type of pressure
> | to have everything everywhere.
> 
> See http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/para.html :-)
> 
> But more helpfully, consider the following example:
> 
>   There are times when it may be necessary to frob the foobar. These
>   can be summarized as follows:
> 
>     <some table goes here>
> 
>   where anything that falls outside the boundaries of column 1 must
>   be considered an error.
> 
> Logically, that's a single paragraph with a table in the middle. To
> mark that up as two paragraphs with a table in between fails to
> capture what the author intended.
> 
> Years of struggling with HTML has mostly trained me not to write that
> way, or not to worry about the mangled markup that results from making
> that three sibling elements, but it's still a rational markup model.



I'm probably being 'too strict' /picky, but two paragraphs and a table
seems right to me (and is what I'd do).

Just an observation.
If the current simpara content had been in para and a new
'messy' / complex model presented (complexpara for want of a better 
name) then I'd have ignored complexpara and used the para.

That would allow both options and let the simpler model be used too.

[Or I could start using docbook-- with the content model of simpara
substituted for para]

OK Norm, I'll let this one go.

regards




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