Norm,
Thanks for the informit.com URL.
I was hoping there was a way to get a complete list of where IndexTerms
will no longer be allowed, but I see how that could be, er, difficult to
construct.
I don't think the comparison with 4.0//EN//XML will help. What I'd like,
I guess, is 4.0//EN//XML with 4.0//EN//SGML, but that's what's hard.
How would you describe where IndexTerms can no longer appear? Here are
the kinds of places I'd expect IndexTerms to be invalid in 5.0: between
chapters, between sections. What about inside Titles? between start tag
and Title? immediately following section Title before next start tag?
Where would you put the IndexTerms to include a reference to an entire
chapter? Is it possible to summarize where they _will_ be allowed --
"inside a block-level thingy below the section level"? (This is speaking
formally, of course.)
Michael
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> | By the way, I found http://www.pearsoneducation.com/ (these guys own
> | a ton of companies you've heard of!), but can someone remind me of the
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> Amazing, isn't it?
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> | URL Sunthar recommended we look at? He had it written on his nametag.
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> informit.com
>
> | I'm still not quite sure of the DocBook 4.0 -> 5.0 change:
> |
> | Do we have a specific list of the backward incompatibilities to be
> | introduced in 5.0 because of XMLification? Or will we just make a
> | general remark? In particular, can we say something specific in 4.0
> | about where IndexTerms will no longer be allowed in 5.0 because of
> | the disappearance of inclusions?
>
> In addition to the specific FUs, I had intended to summarize the
> sorts of changes that 5.0 will introduce because of XML issues.
> An explicit list of everyplace that indexterm is no longer
> allowed would be quite difficult to construct, I think, since
> they're allowed *everywhere* now.
>
> But you will have 4.0//EN//XML to compare against, does that
> help?
>
> Cheers,
> norm
