From: Jennifer Linton
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Sent: Thursday, November
03, 2005 3:12 PM
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RE: [dita] Nested Sections
I have two, which may
be very silly questions/solutions but let me
know.
1) Why couldn’t you
create a specialization for these clients which allows them to nest sections
just for those topics where they are creating
questions?
Specializations must always be
stricter than their base elements. That's why we are saying that
the "generic topic" type should be loose (as it already is, in most
ways) to allow people to model what they want in their specializations.
People who want to be strict in their specializations are free
to.
2) It seems to me
that the most the people are nesting these sections is one level deeper than
the actual section content unit. What if we introduced a subsection element
that is allowed for one level under the section content
unit?
I thought about this myself, but I
was nervous about putting in a half-measure and then a few months from now
finding out that there are more customers for whom it isn't
sufficient.
I think that if this
is critical enough we can put mechanisms in place to prevent users from
nesting sections to any level they
want.
Yes, Erik Hennum is working on a
generalized mechanism for allowing every installation of DITA to express their
own policies.
Paul Prescod
