Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This stuff[1] is my daily bread and butter. His problems with "tabs" was a variant on a problem that I call "The Applicability Trap" in S1000D

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This stuff[1] is my daily bread and butter. His problems with "tabs" was a variant on a problem that I call "The Applicability Trap" in S1000D. Basically, when you go to component content models with conditional blocks, you're abandoning some natural language grammar for the grammar defined in the product architecture. Problem: when you lay out the conditions, you don't know if the architecture resembles the product at all. So you can box yourself into a corner. One of my big side projects is building out a system / process that can determine product equivalence from just design data, in real time. Then you could actually falsify "Le Grande Product Architecture" handed down from mahogany row. It doesn't help that the bigwigs on the steering groups are almost entirely non-technical representatives, of course. [1] Content Architecture