Re: [docbook] Re: Add topic element to DocBook?

[Steven Cogorno <Steven.Cogorno@Sun.COM>]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> What about having <topic class="task"> for "tasktopic"? RELAX NG  
> allows
> us to have different content model for general topic and for this  
> topic
> specialized for task. Using combine="choice" users will be able to add
> very easily their own classes of topic with customized content models.


I think this is not desirable from a writer perspective.  It's much  
easier to deal with discrete elements than it is to rely on a class  
attribute.

Suppose you wanted to search for some text only with tasks.  This  
would be very difficult to do if tasks were identified only by  
attribute.


-Steve