Michael,
Robert's answer probably gives you some idea
already.
When I said:
Some of the things that are now
legal in DITA maps include <image>, <p>, <ol>, <ul>,
<xref>, and simple tables.
I probably should have added:
Getting to the point where some
of these items are legal is pretty involved (simpletable within note within desc
within xref within q within cite within ph within shortdesc).
But that's pretty much exactly my question. Did we
know we were doing this, or was this an unintended consequence of other
decisions.
It sounds like it was an unintended--but perhaps
unavoidable--consequence, and we're willing to live with it.
I just wanted to check.
paul
From: Michael Priestley
[mailto:]
Sent: Monday, 2006 August 14
17:11
To: Grosso, Paul
Cc:
Subject: Re: [dita] inline elements in
dita maps
Where do you see <p>,
<ul>, and <simpletable>? I thought phrase-level content was coming
into shortdesc, but I didn't think block-level content was coming in.
Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect
and Classification Schema PDT
Lead
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
"Grosso, Paul"
<>
08/14/2006 05:45 PM
To
<>
cc
Subject
[dita] inline elements in dita
maps
I just noticed something about the DITA 1.1 content models
for
maps.
In general DITA maps contain very little inline text or
inline elements since most of the information in the map
comes from
the topicref, topichead, topicgroup, and reltable
elements and attributes.
But you can enter inline text and
elements in the topicmeta section.
With DITA 1.0 the content model for this inline information
was quite limited. With DITA 1.1 the content model has been
relaxed so that pretty much whatever would be legal as inline
information in a DITA topic is now also legal in a DITA map.
Some of the things that are now legal in DITA maps include
<image>, <p>, <ol>, <ul>, <xref>, and simple
tables.
I can live with this, I just want to make sure this is a
deliberate change and not an unintended consequence of
some other
decision.
Comments?
paul
