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Re: Issues with processing expectations of theproposedannotation element

From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
To: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>
Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 02:05:25 +0200
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of theproposedannotation element
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Michael Smith wrote:

> I hesitate to say this, but it seems like the best way to have
> something to use for HTML title attributes would be to add a new
> global common attribute -- an annotation attribute -- in addition to
> an annotation element (if we decide to add one), not in place of it.

I don't like idea of attribute for free text. You can't insert
additional markup inside attribute value. This possibility is very
important for some languages with mixed text flow directions. I think
that lack of one presentational format (HTML) shouldn't restrict
possibilities of DocBook. 

				Jirka

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References:
- Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element
  - From: Paul Grosso
- Re: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element
  - From: Michael Smith

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