RE: [dita]

What is the difference between <ph>
and <text>?  Are both needed?  

 

   -Jeff

 











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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
10:11 PM

To: [email protected]

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?


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Deborah Pickett

Information Architect, Moldflow Corporation, Melbourne

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