Re: Yelp document chunking

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 14:17, John Fleck wrote:
> 
> > Is it reasonable to have the chunked atom be one level below the root
> > element of the doc? So an article would be chunked at the sect1 level,
> > while a book would be chunked at the chapter level? Is that the sort of
> > thing you're thinking?

>> Michael Jason Smith responded: 
 
> Personally, I would be happier if a document was always chunked at sect1
> level so the user always knows how a document will be chunked without
> having to know anything about how the document was marked-up.
> 
> A chapter or part chunk would contain a table of contents and some
> introductory text.  Things would look odd for documents that had a
> chapter without any introductory text (so only a table of contents was
> generated) but I don't like those documents anyway :)
> 

Frankly, I see this question as a usability issue. 

Pat