Modularised EDDs?

[Hedley Finger]

Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others:

The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation 
and maintenance.

Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host 
file and modules imported as text insets?  I have been studying the 
Adobe documentation for developing structured applications but cannot 
find any reference to using text insets in this way.  I read 
somewhere a couple of years ago that EDD fragments always require a 
root element that matches an element in the main host EDD skeleton, 
which would rather undermine this idea.  But perhaps there is a 
special root element that can map onto ANY element in the host EDD -- 
a new feature in FM8?

It seems to me that both the Adobe and Leximation EDDs could benefit 
from modularisation that exactly maps onto the *.dtd and *.mod files 
of the DITA schemas/DTDs.

Regards,
Hedley


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