Re: [docbook] Add topic element to DocBook?

Elliotte Harold <>, 2006-10-27 07:47 -0400:

> Coming in late, but in my publishing work a "topic" seems to be called a 
> "part". That is, the usual division is
> 
> book
>   part
>     chapter
>       sect1
>         sect2
>           sect3
> 
> DocBook has a part element. Is this maybe just another name for topic?

I suspect that the content-reuse/modular-authoring proponents
would not be happy with Part, because like Chapter and Section, it
implies some larger document or sequence.

Or maybe it doesn't.

  --Mike