Bob Stayton wrote:
> A topic and an article are semantically similar, in that they are both
> intended as standalone content. But I would say that, semantically
> speaking, an article is even more standalone, while a topic is generally
> embedded in a collection of other topics of related subject matter to
> which it makes references. Maybe that sounds like a journal containing
> a set of articles, but DocBook doesn't do journals. 8^)
It sounds to me like a topic is an article, and the proper mapping from
DITA topics then is DocBook articles. I don't see any reason why
appendix, colophon, and ackno would be less appropriate for a topic than
an article (I have never seen a colophon in an article) and if you don;t
want them you can just leave them out. DocBook is large enough as is.
Let's not make it needlessly larger.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/
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