RE: [docbook-apps] para-section-para

["David Cramer" <dcramer@motive.com>]

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For me, if content were allowed after a section, it's hard to imagine how you would render it in a way that made it clear which section it belongs to. What you have may be a <sidebar>. Worst case you could use <bridgehead>s to match the "structure" of the legacy content.

 

David

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From: Dick Hamilton [mailto:rlhamilton@frii.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:13 PM
To: 'PC Thoms'; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] para-section-para

According to the schema, you can have a para before the first section, but once you start using sections, you cannot have a para outside of some other structure (section, etc.).

 

I believe that is intentional and has been that way for a while.

 

Best Regards,

Dick Hamilton

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-----Original Message-----
From: PC Thoms [mailto:pcthoms@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:40 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps] para-section-para

While preparing an article in the following format I receive a not allowed instruction.

Editor: Oxygen 10.3

<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"

    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">

  <section>

    <para>text</para>

    <section>

      <para>text</para>

    </section>

  <para>text</para> (This paragraph shows as not allowed. Why?)

  </section>

</article>

Exports to the browser fine.

Must I follow a <section> with a <section>, that works, but this would break up the flow of the document, which is an old report.

Or is this a bug?