The content model for <steps-informal>
is section-like, so it can contain a generic <ol> list with no substructures,
or a set of paragraphs, or...
It's deliberately loose (ie informal)
to provide an alternative for people who found the prescriptive structures
of <steps> or <steps-unordered> too... er... prescriptive :-)
If you need bulleted/non-sequential
substeps, there's the <choices> element (for cases where the steps
are not numbered because they are alternatives to each other), or the backup
is <info> with a contained <ul>. I'm not sure that there's
a strong case for <substeps-unordered> given the alternatives already
available.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical
Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
"Tim Grantham"
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02/02/2009 03:35 PM
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RE: [dita] Another request for steps-informal
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I've always used <steps-unordered> for single-step
procedures. How would
<steps-informal> differ from <steps-unordered>?
Also, why is there no <substeps-unordered> element to match the
<steps-unordered> element? This would be useful to create bulleted
items on
output, since <substeps> always gets rendered as numbered items.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fogel, Stephen J [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:11 PM
To: Robert D Anderson; dita
Subject: RE: [dita] Another request for steps-informal example
Robert....
What is the philosophy of the group on how to document a task that has
only
one step?
For example, a task topic entitled "Taking a Tablespace Offline"
might look
like this:
==============
Taking a Tablespace Offline
Taking a tablespace offline temporarily prevents access to the data stored
in it. You may want to take a tablespace offline when....
To take a tablespace offline, submit the following statemment:
ALTER TABLESPACE tablespace_name OFFLINE;
See also: xxxx
====================
This is really a procedure with one step. Obviously, an ordered list with
one step would look odd, to say the least. How is something like this
normally handled in DITA? Might this be a candidate for this new markup?
Thx
Steve
Oracle
Steve Fogel | Information Architect, Oracle Database | 650.506.4914 Oracle
Server Technologies Information Development 500 Oracle Parkway | M/S 4op1126
| Redwood Shores, CA 94065
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 11:23 AM
To: dita
Subject: [dita] Another request for steps-informal example
Hello everybody,
Early drafts of DITA 1.2 added a <process> element to task for describing
procedural task information that does not fit into <steps>. I asked
a couple
of times for an example to include in the language specification, but didn't
get one.
Late last year we changed the name from <process> to <steps-informal>,
but I
still don't have an example.
Can anybody on the list provide an example for the <steps-informal>
element?
The original proposal does not explain the element beyond what I've stated
above, and does not give an example. I know a number of people on the TC
feel this element is critical, so I would appreciate it if one of those
people can provide an example to include in the Language Specification...
Thanks,
Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
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