[docbook-tc] Metadata action item results

Hi,

The list below is of the items in DocBook that currently have a metadata
(usually 'info') element associated with them:

appendix

article

bibliography

book  

chapter

glossary

*object   (media, audio, image, text; the element is
'objectinfo' for all of them)

index

msgentry (associated  with msginfo)

part 

preface

refentry  (associated with refentryinfo and refmeta)

reference

refsect[123]

refsynopsisdiv

screen

sect[12345]

section

setindex

set

sidebar

In addition to the above elements, the following elements seem to be
reasonable candidates for having metadata elements associated with
them:

equation, example, figure, table

        (plus, or
not, the informal versions of these)

msgset, qandasdet

procedure, itemizedlist, orderedlist, variablelist

My examination of DocBook elements didn't suggest any other likely
candidates for adding metadata elements to, and I would be very
disinclined to add metadata elements to lots of elements.

I also question our differentiating between sect1info and sect2info, when
I suspect that a common 'sectioninfo' element would be more useful, as
would a common 'refsectinfo'.  As far as I can tell the content
models for the sect?info, sectioninfo, refsect?info, and
refsynopsisdivinfo elements are all identical, so we might even want to
have a single 'sectioninfo' for all types of sections.

Regards,

Nancy

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Nancy (Paisner) Harrison

Rational Software

Lexington  MA