I can bring this up at a TC meeting in
the new year. I certainly struggled with this when I was an
information developer.
Best,
Kris
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On 12/12/2013 10:46 AM, Bob Thomas wrote:
Hi,
This
thread is interesting.
It's clear that authors utilize ordered list to achieve the
desired formatting when step-like things are needed within
choice and choicetable. Do we contend that having step-like
things inside of choice and choicetable are not a valid
use-cases? I believe that they are valid use-cases, especially
when you consider that Information Mapping advocates this
construct in their if-then tables.
If we agree that step-like things within choice and
choicetable are valid use-cases, then it would be better to
offer the semantically correct element for the use cases in
choice and chdesc. I deliberately omitted choption from having
substeps because I contend the choption content is to help the
reader select among choices.
Ordered list would have to remain in the content model for
backward compatibility. But, a newly adopting organization
could remove it with a constraint.
I suspect that the current models were arrived at only
after lengthy discussion. Should we decide to pursue this, it
would be useful to have the rationale for the decisions.
Best Regards,
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