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From: Deborah Pickett
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:11:00 -0000


There was a bit of conversation back
in February  (Eliot and Erik were contributors) about a generic <text>
element.  Presumably, <text> is allowed everywhere that PCDATA
is allowed, and its content model is (PCDATA | text)*.

Eliot's message (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200702/msg00064.html)
comes up with a justification for a base <text> element.  That
was in the context of avoiding mixed content in conjunction with <data>.
 That's the part that is linked to from Proposal #12020 (http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_Specification_1.2_Requirements).

But lately I've seen other uses for
a <text> element, if it existed.  Conref of snippets of text
where <ph> is not allowed (such as in <keyword> or <term>
or <filepath>) is something that has popped up on dita-users more
than once, and something I've needed in my day job.  Proposal #12035
(collation overrides) could probably benefit from it too.

Is this latter use something that proposal
#12020 is intended to cover?

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Deborah Pickett

Information Architect, Moldflow Corporation, Melbourne

[email protected]