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

["Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@sideshowbarker.net>]

Chris Chiasson <chris@chiasson.name>, 2006-10-28 15:17 -0500:

> that's invalid xml

Actually, it's not well-formed XML. Anyway, I think that's exactly
the point was Elliotte was making. If you have content that
requires topics to cross section boundaries, you can't represent
it XML, because it violates XML's well-formedness contraints.

  --Mike

> On 10/27/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> >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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