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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: curious about duplicated elements
/ "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> was heard to say: | as i peruse all of the elements, i was curious about the fact that | a <book> can directly contain a <title> element, but a <book> can also | contain a <bookinfo> element, which itself can contain a <title>. | | this kind of duplication seems to be fairly rare -- a <book> can't | directly contain, for example, an <authorgroup>; that has to be | within the <bookinfo> element. any reason why title, subtitle | and titleabbrev have this extra flexibility? It was before my time, but I think the reasoning was that every book, chapter, section, etc. should be required to have a title, but that requiring it to have an *info wrapper in order to have a title (and perhaps because the title couldn't be made required in the *info wrapper) was too burdensome. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Some disguised deceits counterfeit http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | truth so perfectly that not to be Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | taken in by them would be an error | of judgment.--La Rochefoucauld
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