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    Posted 04-28-2005 14:01 
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I posted this on dita-users but did not get a response. Any opinions
from the TC? My concern here is that the prescribed specialization
procedure for DTDs is unnecessarily limiting. On the "specialization or
attributes?" thread, Barbara Douma of Compuware had remarks that seems
related:
    

    About 8 years ago we moved to a topic-based SGML
CMS in which we had very heavily specialized topics, including an
Introduction, Concept, Main process, Process, Task-group, Task, and
innumerable reference topic types. The end result was inflexible. This
was also due to the structuring DTDs, which only allowed certain topic
types in certain contexts.
    

    
Chris

    

    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                
    
                                                
                                            
                                        

                                        
                                        

                                    
			

                                    
                                

                                
                                
    
                                
    
                            
		
                
        
    




            
        
    


	
    


    
    
         
    
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