Can you give a concrete example of a book that has appendices in parts?
What does the overall TOC look like and why was it important to put the
appendices in parts?
A consequence of the model you propose is that there is nothing to force
appendices to appear at the end of the book.
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> To: Robert D Anderson
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> Subject: Re: [dita] Complexity of bookmap content model
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> Robert, et al:
>
> Two items I would like to propose.
>
> 1. Would very much like to see appendices included in the
> content model for <part>. As with chapters, which can
> precede the first part or be included in a part, we would
> like to see appendices treated similarly.
> The difference is that any appendices external to a part
> would follow the last part, and precede <backmatter>.
>
> In our hardware manuals, when parts are used, appendices are
> frequently included in the last part of the manual.
>
> To accomplish that I believe the only item that would need to
> change would be the following, which includes <appendix> in <part>:
>
> <!ELEMENT part (topicmeta?, (chapter | appendix | topicref)*)>
