Re: [docbook] Why does <menuchoice> support multiple <guimenuitem> elements?

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 21/07/2020 08:57, David O'Brien wrote:
> I have a question about the following:
>
> GUIMenuItem identifies a terminal selection from a menu in a
> graphical user interface. In particular, this is distinct from a menu
> (GUIMenu) and a submenu (GUISubmenu). The distinction between a
> GUIMenuItem and a GUISubmenu is simply whether or not the selection
> is terminal or leads to an additional submenu.*
>
> *https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/4.5/guimenuitem.html
>
> If a GUIMenuItem is terminal, shouldn't there be only one? Our
> writers regularly include >1 inside <menuchoice> but we don't get any
> validation errors. What did I miss?

What would concern me more is why the authors are including more than 
one item. Perhaps they believe that GUIMenuItem is for representing all 
the items available n the menu at a certain level, and they may 
therefore be puzzled as to why there isn't an option to say "here are 
the items you will see displayed â just click the one saying 'Blort'"

Peter