[Doc-SIG] Re: Grump about field lists

[Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)]

David Goodger wrote:
> OK, done. The element is 'docinfo'. It satisfies
> the desire for an explicit element hierarchy
> (encapsulation).

Thanks.

> > Hmm - does that mean that we should add "Mode" or "Style" as an
> > extra such bibliographic field name
>
> No. Please, no!

.. _above.
That's OK - there's a reason I'm happy to not be designing this myself!

> If something like this ever really becomes necessary, the way to do it
> would be with a directive, not a field list.

A good point. See above_.

Tibs

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