From:
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com [mailto:Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
10:11 PM
To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [dita] <text>
element (#12020)
There was a bit of conversation back in February (Eliot
and Erik were contributors) about a generic <text> element. Presumably,
<text> is allowed everywhere that PCDATA is allowed, and its content
model is (PCDATA | text)*.
Eliot's
message (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200702/msg00064.html) comes
up with a justification for a base <text> element. That was in the
context of avoiding mixed content in conjunction with <data>. That's
the part that is linked to from Proposal #12020
(http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_Specification_1.2_Requirements).
But
lately I've seen other uses for a <text> element, if it existed. Conref
of snippets of text where <ph> is not allowed (such as in <keyword>
or <term> or <filepath>) is something that has popped up on
dita-users more than once, and something I've needed in my day job. Proposal
#12035 (collation overrides) could probably benefit from it too.
Is
this latter use something that proposal #12020 is intended to cover?
--
Deborah Pickett
Information Architect, Moldflow Corporation, Melbourne
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com