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Feature Request: Make tgroup optional w/in table

From: Paul Grosso
To: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:24:00 -0000

This isn't really an OASIS table issue. It's a conref issue. The problem arises whenever you conref to an element whose content model doesn't allow it to be empty. The problem is just due to the basic definitions of XML and DITA's conref. Basically, the design of DITA's conref is not completely compatible with XML. We could allow DITA's table element to be empty--and assume this situation would only be used in the conref case--but if the table element is not empty, tgroup needs to be required. paul >