"Bob Stayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While reviewing a stylesheet bug, I also noticed that the simplesect > element is not chunked. That seems odd to me, since a simplesect is a > real section, except that it cannot have child sections. Does anyone > see a problem with making simplesect into chunks?
The important semantic distinction between simplesect and the other sectioning elements isn't merely that they're leaves, it's that *they never occur in the table of contents*. http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/simplesect#d0e205533 <aside>Bleh, those sections need proper IDs.</aside> So, while I think arguments on the basis of size could go either way, and while it's also not entirely impossible to imagine chunks that are only available by navigating sequentially through them, the fact that they aren't in the ToC makes them poor candidates for chunk targets, IMHO. And that's almost certainly why I left them out originally. If you've got a long chapter that consists entirely of simplesects, I don't think you're helping your reader very much. If you're putting simplesects in the ToC, you're doing it wrong :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The First Amendment is often http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | inconvenient. But that is besides Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | the point. Inconvenience does not | absolve the government of its | obligation to tolerate | speech.--Justice Anthony Kennedy, | in 91-155
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