Re: [docbook] Tabs and <formalgroup> content model

[Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us>]

On 2/5/24 06:31, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> writes:
> > Not sure if this is the "right" way to do that in DocBook, but I face some
> > questions:
> >
> > 1. What if I don't need the formalgroup title?
> >     I could use <title/>, but that's not the same. Perhaps this goes into
> >     the direction of a <informalformalgroup> (which doesn't exist).
>
> Iâm not sure formalgroup is really a good fit here. It feels more like
> whatâs needed for this sort of thing is an âalternativesâ element and a
> wrapper for a series of alternatives.
>
> In addition to the title problem, I wouldnât be surprised if you
> discovered you wanted to have different kinds of things in different
> tabs. You might even be eluding to that in your introduction of
> formalpara to the mix. Note that formalgroup is a group of one type.


Just as an information point, "other" systems do have provision for 
alternatives-in-tabs model, but it's not necessarily intrinsic, as an 
illustration see here (this is an add-on):

https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-tabs/