[publican-list] Re: <section status="draft"> ignored

[Jeff Fearn]

David O'Brien wrote:
> Eric Christensen wrote:
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>> Jeff Fearn wrote:
>>  > Can you use remarks to flag content that needs to be reviewed?
>>  
>>> It was made _very_ clear to me that having draft content inside
>>> non-draft content was a misnomer.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Jeff.
>>>     
>>
>> Jeff,
>> Here's the problem.  If you have a document that is completely draft
>> then you could "un-draft" portions of the document that have been
>> properly checked.  This would give readers the information but also the
>> knowledge that it might not be correct.  This means you wouldn't have to
>> edit out portions that are probably correct but haven't been vetted yet.
>>
>> I could see this being important not for draft but for message
>> classifications where each particular paragraph might need to be flagged
>> for sensitivity.  Probably not a concern in Fedora but I could see using
>> Publican outside of Fedora.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
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> I'm coming in late to this discussion, but I think the idea is to mark 
> the entire document draft, and then use <remark> tags to identify the 
> specific sections that have yet to be verified. As each identified 
> section is verified, remove the <remark> tags until none remain, at 
> which time you can remove the DRAFT status.
> 
> Jeff, pls correct me if this is not the idea.

Hi David, you are correct.

I can't remember the exact arguments against being able to mark bits of your 
document as draft, so I will do a poor job of para phrasing!

When you remove draft from the root node, you are saying the book, in it's 
entirety, is complete. You can not have incomplete bits in a complete book, 
therefore marking only bits of a book as draft is a mixed metaphor and is wrong.

That's probably a pretty dumb explanation of the reasoning, but I've been sick for 
almost 2 weeks now and that's all I've got.

Cheers, Jeff.

P.S. David for some reason your email to the list got bounced, I'll get Murray to 
have a look at it.