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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Norman Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Bob Stayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Gerrit Kuilder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "docbook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:20 PM Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model > Norman Walsh writes: > > > / Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
