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Re: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model


I would certainly find the proposed "tocentry" simpler;
especially if I had to push a large number of items to a deeper
level (which is a simple cut and paste, rather than renumbering
each individual element).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>
Cc: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@caldera.com>; "Gerrit Kuilder" <gerrit@yours-untildeath.demon.nl>; "docbook" <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:20 PM
Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model


> Norman Walsh writes:
> 
> > / Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> was heard to say:
> > | That puts the burden on the user to verify manually that the nesting is
> > | correct.  Wasn't that what DTD's were supposed to provide?  ISTM that
> >
> > This is only for the unusual case where you want to maintain the TOC
> > by hand.
> 
> Right.  But then you couldn't claim that you want to simplify the content
> model because authors constantly complain that it's too complicated. ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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