Why does <menuchoice> support multiple <guimenuitem> elements?

David O'Brien <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:57:15 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.text.docbook.misc
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I have a question about the following:

GUIMenuItem identifies a terminal selection from a menu in a graphical user interface. In
particular, this is distinct from a menu (GUIMenu) and a submenu (GUISubmenu). The distinction
between a GUIMenuItem and a GUISubmenu is simply whether or not the selection is terminal or leads
to an additional submenu.*

*https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/4.5/guimenuitem.html

If a GUIMenuItem is terminal, shouldn't there be only one? Our writers regularly include >1 inside
<menuchoice> but we don't get any validation errors. What did I miss?

thanks
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David

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