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Re: Merging meta info wrappers
- From: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:37:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Merging meta info wrappers
- References: <87ofjvcshx.fsf@nwalsh.com>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Historically, DocBook has provided explicit meta info wrappers
> (BookInfo, ChapterInfo, Sect1Info, Sect2Info, etc.) so that
> customizers could selectively change the content model of info
> wrappers (e.g., excluding copyright from Sect*Info without excluding
> it from ChapterInfo or above).
>
> It has been suggested that the other extreme, a single <Info> element
> would be better.
I'm not sure, but maybe some schema description would be able to allow
different content for a <Book><Info> and a <Section><Info> ? That
could resolve the problem for those wanting to make use of selective
changes.
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