alternative topic proposal

Bob Stayton wrote:

> A topic and an article are semantically similar, in
that they are both 
> intended as standalone content.  But I would say that,
semantically 
> speaking, an article is even more standalone, while a
topic is generally 
> embedded in a collection of other topics of related
subject matter to 
> which it makes references.  Maybe that sounds like a
journal containing 
> a set of articles, but DocBook doesn't do journals. 
8^)

It sounds to me like a topic is an article, and the proper
mapping from 
DITA topics then is DocBook articles. I don't see any reason
why 
appendix, colophon, and ackno would be less appropriate for
a topic than 
an article (I have never seen a colophon in an article) and
if you don;t 
want them you can just leave them out. DocBook is large
enough as is. 
Let's not make it needlessly larger.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharometalab.unc.edu
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