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[Eliot Kimber]

Esrig, Bruce (Bruce) wrote: > The agreement on nested sections, as I recall it, was that each topic > can contain one-user-defined heading (the title of the section). Aside > from that, a separate intermediate heading level would be defined both > above and below section to permit auto-generated headings. > Specialization of the language and processing would be use to obtain the > auto-generated headings. I obviously wasn't paying attention at the time but I don't find this to be a particularly attractive solution, for the simple reason that it both requires specialization and presumes an unreasonble degree of formality and regularity in the data. And it still imposes an arbitrary limit in how detailed your division hierarchy is, which I find to be counter to the very notion of a general standard (but that's largely a meta-argument about what is and is not appropriate for something like DITA to constrain). If you're saying that 1.1 is closed with respect to issues then I'll just wait for 1.2. But if 1.1 is about making DITA more appropriate for more traditional technical publications I would think that addressing this would be as compelling as getting indexing correct. Cheers, Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 9390 Research Blvd, #410 Austin, TX 78759 (214) 954-5198 ekimber@innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com