procedure steps

[Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>]

Hi,

I'm finding the currect implementation of procedure lists quite
cumbersome and I'm wondering that someone else had the same experiences
or I'm just doing something wrong. For example, if I have some
alternative steps, I use the <stepalternative> tag but it has to be
wrapped into a <step>, which kind of bloats my rendered output:

  <step>
    <para>If A</para>

    <substeps>
      <step>
        <stepalternatives>
          <step>
            <para>If A/1</para>

            <substeps>
              <step>
		<para>Do foo.</para>
	      </step>
            </substeps>
          </step>
        </stepalternatives>
      </step>
    </substeps>
  </step>

The actual case is much more complicated but you can see how it becomees
bloated...

Apart from the quite unpleasant rendering, I wonder why the substeps
wrapper is necessary. It would be easier to just allow nested steps
after the initial block content and to also allow stepalternatives as a
wrapper inside steps:


  <step>
    <para>If A</para>

    <stepalternatives>
      <step>
        <para>If A/1</para>

        <step>
	  <para>Do foo.</para>
	 </step>
      </step>
    </stepalternatives>
  </step>

I think it carries the same semantical content.

Any comments?

Thanks,
Gabor