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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Element [...] not allowed in this context
> Things are a little different when you look at how a DocBook document is > rendered (in HTML or XSL-FO or whatever). The current stylesheets render > everything down to a <sect5>, so you would have 7 levels of hierarchy > out of the box (5 sections inside a chapter inside a book). If that is > not sufficient (i.e. you ran out of hierarchy for your use case), such > as defining that, in a work on geography, a <sect1> is a section > describing a continent, a <sect2> described a country, <sect3> a > district, etc... Eventually, past <sect5>, the standard stylesheet will > run out of predetermined categories for sections. But you can add that > easily (see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch05.html, "Adding > Elements: Adding a sect6"). Well, this is another strength of DocBook (and XML), obviously, not just because it is hard to run out of hierarchies (though until our project gets its sea legs I am suggesting we stick with standard stylesheets) but because it is hard to run out of semantic markup. I know that is what you were saying but it's a slightly different way of looking at it that is also applicable to the problems we're working through. Thanks again to everyone for the quick responses yesterday. I went back through the proposed doc outline the project had been discussing and applied book/chapter/sect1/sect2 etc. and the files now validate. I also reviewed a style manual someone had kindly provided off-list from their project and noted their guidance to their company regarding sections and chapters. -- -- | Karen G. Schneider | Community Librarian | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts" | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712 | kgs@esilibrary.com | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009! | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen
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