[development] update/replace the book module - poll, questions

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Tao Starbow <starbow at citris-uc.org>:

> I am probably missing something obvious, but why not just leverage 
> the parent-child relationships defined in the menu system and do away 
> with book entirely?  It seems like the only things book does that 
> menu doesn't is put in the cute next/prev and children links, which 
> would be easy enough to add in.  Other than that it is just UI.
>

 From my experimentation with the book module, it also provided a nice 
feature to chain node entries to a parent.  I think the feature is nice 
and leveraging the API of the menu may help but the idea of book 
content type is a good one.  Perhaps rather than renaming as has been 
suggested that we look at the properties of a book and enhance the 
module.  There are various types of books and our book module currently 
tends to gravitate toward chapter books.  Within chapter books we find 
a preface, table of contents, and the body of the book.  Some we even 
find an index.  The preface is a summary or teaser of the body of the 
book, the table of contents is an outline or menu of the body of the 
book and the index is a taxonomy of the body of the book.  The book has 
a title which becomes a menu which in turn is the table of contents.  
The preface becomes the first item of the menu.  The chapter titles 
become items of the menu as well as the node title.  The chapter has 
sections which become children of the chapter menu items.

Earnie