questions on creating an assembly

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Larry,
While creating the modular doc toolkit I just posted, a couple of questions 
came up about the assembly elements.

1.  An output element cannot just have a renderas attribute, it must also 
have an outputformat.  If one wants the same renderas for all outputs, then 
outputformat must be set to "ALL".  I'm wondering of outputformat could be 
optional, with the meaning that if it is not present on an output element, 
then the output element applies to all outputs.

2.  I'm wondering if the indirection provided by a module element pointing 
to a resource element which then points to a fileref is always necessary. 
It seems the module element could accept fileref insted of resourceref for 
those who don't want to separate their resources into a <resources> element. 
For a simple book, requiring that extra level of indirection seems 
intrusive. Did you consider that possibility?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net