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Subject: Re: [docbook] Add topic element to DocBook?
"Johnson, Eric" <Eric.Johnson@iona.com>, 2006-10-26 14:39 -0400: > It sounds like adding an element to the schema for purely marketing > reasons. Maybe so. But for good or bad, there are a lot of technical writers and tech-writing managers who are really keen on content reuse and the idea of doing modular doc authoring, and they seem to like the name Topic. And maybe having a Topic element in DocBook will help them to do their modular authoring in DocBook more easily. > Essentially <topic> and <section> are the same, but not > interchangeable correct? Not interchangeable in the sense that they could be siblings within the same doc instance. For example, you couldn't do this: <section>... <topic>... <section>... Another difference is that while Section is not allowed as a child of Book, Topic would be. --Mike
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