I would certainly find the proposed "tocentry" simpler;
especially if I had to push a large number of items to a deeper
level (which is a simple cut and paste, rather than renumbering
each individual element).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Eisentraut" <>
To: "Norman Walsh" <>
Cc: "Bob Stayton" <>; "Gerrit Kuilder" <>; "docbook" <>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:20 PM
Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model
> Norman Walsh writes:
>
> > / Peter Eisentraut <> was heard to say:
> > | That puts the burden on the user to verify manually that the nesting is
> > | correct. Wasn't that what DTD's were supposed to provide? ISTM that
> >
> > This is only for the unusual case where you want to maintain the TOC
> > by hand.
>
> Right. But then you couldn't claim that you want to simplify the content
> model because authors constantly complain that it's too complicated. ;-)
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
