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Lists in hazard statements

From: Jang Graat <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 07:07:00 -0000

Hello Dawn, Good point and I will certainly take this into account in my redesign. I am working on that now but it might take another month or two to finish, as I do want to have a complete proposal for the new markup with a reference implementation for DITA-OT. Kind regards Jang > On 10 Mar 2017, at 01:48, Dawn Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I am wondering if there > is a specific reason that the only list type allowed in <howtoavoid> is > <sl>. By definition, the <sl> element says it "contains a simple list of > items of short, phrase-like content² and that there is an "assumption that > each item is short enough to fit on one line, and needs no additional > differentiation from its neighbors.² However, there is often more than one > way to avoid a hazard and discussion of each way is frequently more than a > short phrase and may in fact require several lines. > > I often have clients who want to disallow <sl> overall in their model, but > who are forced to keep it solely for the purpose of their hazard > statements. > > Would it be appropriate in 2.0 to expand the elements allowed in > <howtoavoid> to include <ul> and <ol>? Perhaps this will fall under Jang¹s > forthcoming recommendations regarding the hazard statement? > > Thanks, > Dawn > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >