Web pages commonly use blockquotes for artful text quips (pull
quotes, ie conrefs from the marketing/news narrative, in effect) as
well as for lengthy quotes used in the usual research/context
manner. Web themes usually provide a theme-specific CSS class value
that manages the visual distinction. Via Lightweight DITA, authors
could use an easy way to "clone elements for a new semantic role" to
handle that need with improved components.
But in general, it's hard to say what ought *not* be allowed inside
fig. If there is no cost to leaving them in, I'm inclined to allow
more things, not less. My reasoning is that fig's payload (the part
that an editor would expose as a typed field) is the same as the
body field, hence an implementation could call for the same datatype
handling in both editing cases. If you restrict what one field can
have, then your implementation must support "fig field" content
interfaces vs "body field" interfaces. In standard, schema-driven
editors, these field definitions ultimately go back to PCDATA,
timestamps, and other typed data primitives. Lightweight editors
necessarily focus on the more narrative chunks of content, hence
having fewer narrative data types helps to lower the cost of
implementation. This long reasoning hearkens back to identifying
what a common "para block" data-type requires and in what places
that block may be allowed (body, li, lq, section, fig, note, etc.
all come to mind as being basically the same).
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Don
On 8/10/2015 1:37 AM, Mark Giffin
wrote:
I
am adding <fig> to the Lightweight DITA DTDs and I need some
agreement on what to leave out. <fig> can contain many
elements and attributes in full DITA.
I think I should leave out these elements for LW DITA:
figgroup, fn, lines, lq, note, sl, data-about
I'm leaving in these elements, which were already allowed:
title, desc, data, simpletable, xref, dl, image, object, ol, p,
pre, ul
Thoughts? I'm still working on the attributes.
Mark Giffin
Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
http://markgiffin.com/
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