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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: re step container for procedure
Everywhere where I've got "group of steps" below, please substitute "group of steps and an optional title and titleabbrev". Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> writes: > Michael Smith wrote: > ... > | > | Having a Stepset container would make it possible for authoring groups > | > | to store and reuse *just* a set of steps itself-- without the Title or > | > | Para material specific to the particular context of the admin guide or > | > | the context of the training manual. > | > > | > It's already possible to reuse the set of steps - use an entity. > | > | Yep-- an excellent workaround that will always work. But a workaround. > > Not a workaround, but a fundamental facility of SGML. As this > facility is available, no argument that markup is necessary to > make reuse possible is coherent. You're right of course-- one way or another, to reuse a group of steps, they will have to be stored as an entity at some point. What I'm talking about is a way to facilitate automation of that. For a group of steps to be reused alone-- without the rest of the Procedure stuff-- a person needs to manually create an entity containing the steps, because the group of steps is not delimited in as a group. It takes a human looking at it to see three steps in a row and say, that's a group of steps I can store as an entity. But they are not logically delimited in a way that a machine-- a document management system or other processing app-- would normally expect. If we create a Stepset container, a doc management system can automatically store the Stepset and all its contents as one entity. --Mike Smith
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