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From: Michael(tm) Smith [mailto:smi...@sideshowbarker.net]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 1:26 AM
To: docb...@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook] Add topic element to DocBook?
"Johnson, Eric" <Eric...@iona.com>, 2006-10-26 20:06 -0400:
Way back in the tech hay days, our company went on a big
information
mapping kick and now all of our documents have "blocks" as the base
level of structure. We are using <simplesect> as the
blocking element
because blocks are atomic. Where does <topic> fit into this sort of
information chunking? Is a <topic> a block or is it a
higher level of
structure?
I think it's identical to your "block". It's a unit or module
of content that can be reused in different combinations with
other units/modules.
So a topic is indivisable and cannot have any sub-topics or
sub-sections?
As for <tasktopic>, didn't someone say you would be able
to specifiy
a topic type? So why not <topic topictype=task>?
That seems like a much cleaner approach than the other suggestions.
Not if the content model of a task differs from that of a
generic topic.
--Mike
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