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

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Elliotte,
> I'm not clear what you meant when you said that XML can't handle this 
> idea of assembling topics using a mapping element.  Can you elaborate?
> 

Topics can cross section boundaries, and sections can cross topic 
boundaries. Hence overlap. e.g.

<topic>
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   <section>
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
     </topic
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   </section>


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