discuss: Docbook questions
Subject:
Re: Docbook questions
From:
"John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Nov 2003 15:22:25 -0000
Message-Id: <200311191522.hAJFMPDh004248@ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com>
At (time_t)758278059 "Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote:
> Why is <section> better? No idea here, just curious...
<section> vs <sectN> is largely a question of flexibility.
The stylesheets can make a <section> in a <section> look just
like a <sect2> within a <sect1>, so there's no output advantage.
But, a <section> within a <section> can be extracted into its own
top-level section, nested even more deeply, or moved to an
entirely different part of the document, without it and its own
<section> children being renamed. That is not true of the
numbered section tags, which are very sensitive to
rearrangements.
-John
