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Re: newbie Q's about Simplified DocBook 1.0b2
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:02:23 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: newbie Q's about Simplified DocBook 1.0b2
Norman Walsh wrote:
> | <listitem><para>...</para></listitem> :)
>
> No, that's not the same thing at all. The content model of listitem in
> DocBook is required to be block content. You can't not put the para in
> there.
> [...]
> I consider it a browser bug that
>
> <ol compact="compact">
> <li><p>para 1</p></li>
> <li><p>para 2</p></li>
> </ol>
>
> does not render the way you want.
Fair enough. I was so accustomed to working around that bug, I forgot
that <li> may contain block content, not just inline content.
I will make sure the stylesheet is smart enough to deal with this.
> Ahem. Maybe you'd like to start a thread about this on the
> docbook-apps list? :-)
Can't subscribe to it while I'm composing this email ;)
> I'm not sure what you mean by cumbersome,
> except perhaps that they're a bit, uhm, large.
Too large to process quickly with 4XSLT, and somewhat too revealing of bugs in
our XML parsers :) IIRC, the main issue is the size of l10n.xml. Parsing this
takes forever.
Thanks for your help!
- Mike
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