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Re: XML cookbook questions

> You can, of course, specify the Body paragraph tag as the element 
paragraph 
> format at the highest level.... EDD format rules then modify virtually 
every
> one of the Body tag's format parameters..... That locks all 
> document formatting in stone....
>
> To me, the approach described above is antithetical to the entire 
concept 
> of structured document design.

Having built an EDD using a few paragraph & character formats, and 
overriding
where desired, I'd have to agree. For version 2, I'll probably try moving 
as much
formatting decisions as possible to styles.
--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc

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