Alternatives to bridgeheads

[Stefan Hinz <stefan.hinz@oracle.com>]

We're currently using <bridgehead> a lot to emulate <section>, mostly 
where we don't want sections to be split out into separate HTML pages 
(and where we can't prevent that simply via the chunking level).

<bridgehead> has a number of drawbacks, though, one of them being that 
it's not a container element.

I guess we're looking for something that satisfies these requirements:

* Produces a separate (not inline) title, unlike <formalpara>
* Takes a <title>, so that it can be xref'ed without having to supply 
the link text, unlike <bridgehead>
* Acts as a wrapper around the associated content, unlike <bridgehead>, 
and unlike <formalpara> (which wraps only a limited set of elements, not 
including lists for example)
* Does not produce a standalone section (unlike <section> which might or 
might not depending on nesting depth)

I don't know of anything like that. Does it exist? Does <simplesect> do 
all that?

Cheers,

Stefan