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RE: [dita] Navtitle and locktitle (reprise)

  • 1.  RE: [dita] Navtitle and locktitle (reprise)

    Posted 01-10-2007 22:28
    Sounds fine to me. That's how we're using it now.
    JoAnn
    
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] 
    Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:51 PM
    To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: [dita] Navtitle and locktitle (reprise)
    
    
    Last spring I sent this proposal to the list about the treatment of
    locktitle:
    http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200603/msg00050.html
    
    I see it on the agenda for a few weeks, and then it disappears with no
    discussion or action recorded. I feel certain that there was agreement
    on
    it - but it may have just been verbal agreement between myself and Paul
    Prescod at the DITA conference.
    
    The suggestion is that locktitle, when set on a map, apply to the entire
    map. When set anywhere else within a map, it applies only to that
    element
    (the current definition in the spec). Based on 1.0 spec, there is no
    purpose for setting locktitle on map, so this should not break any
    implementation. Defining this behavior for maps will allow users to lock
    in
    titles for each topicref in a map without setting locktitle on every
    element. Whether or not that seems odd, I know of several people doing
    it
    today, so it is a real-world scenario.
    
    More information is available by following the note chain. Are there any
    problems with this? Does anybody remember a decision on this (I can't
    find
    it in the archives)? I'd like to get it on to the agenda for next week,
    so
    that it doesn't get lost again. If the TC agrees (again?), then I think
    it
    could be added to the 1.1 architectural spec as a clarification of
    locktitle.
    
    Thanks-
    
    Robert D Anderson
    IBM Authoring Tools Development
    Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
    (507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787