OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

Grosso, Paul wrote:

> Fine, that's saying something.  That's all I'm asking.
> (We don't have a global statement in DITA analogous to
> XML's not well-formed statement, so it's not clear in
> general what should happen when a DITA document doesn't
> conform to the constraints in the DITA standard.)

I think I understand what Paul is getting at and I agree with all his 
suggestions. I also take his point that people will blame the tool that 
correctly fails where others don't if the spec is not clear.

That's also interesting about the MIME type--and I agree we should let 
that sleeping dog snore until we can do the right thing, which will be 
2.0 at the earliest.

Cheers,

E.

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"Eliot Kimber" 

Sorry, I should have made it clearer in my original
posting that I meant this clarification to be part
of DITA 1.2, not 1.1.

And I did suggest specific wording in my email at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200705/msg00040.html

As far as what is in scope for DITA 1.2, there is
a difference between adding a new feature/enhancement
and correcting/clarifying the standard, and I think 
corrections and clarifications are (almost) always in
scope.  Otherwise, someone can just make the issue a
comment during out next review, and that would just
hold us up at a later date in the process.  

paul

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                                                Original Message-----
> From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 2007 May 18 10:43
> To: DITA TC list
> Subject: Re: [dita] clarifying the href attribute in the 
> language reference

> So I think this discussion falls into "proposed changes" 
> considerations for
> 1.2, but at least we can document them early in the process 
> as a separate
> Committee Draft that we can associate on the TC's home page.  
> Paul, would
> you or Eliot care to take a stab at a draft for the TC? I 
> don't think there
> is an urgent schedule requirement if the work scope is small 
> enough to make
> this a "simple" inclusion for the 1.2 list of work.

Gotcha, Paul. Today is "perfunctory Friday" for me, and I did not recall
the previous note. We'll add this to the doc updates for 1.2.

Regards,
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Don Day
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             "Grosso, Paul"