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Notes on Compound Documents

  • 1.  Notes on Compound Documents

    Posted 05-04-2004 14:41
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    Subject: Notes on Compound Documents


    Greetings,
    
    to save at least some time during the conference call, here are my notes
    and additions to the Compound Documents Statement.
    
    1. Question of terminology (what is "compound document"?) should be put
       first.
    2. There is at least four frequenly used patterns which can be called
       "compound documents":
    
       a) encapsulation of formats (e.g. MathML used within TEI document).
       b) application-specific extensions (e.g. XSLT extensions)
       c) specializations in DITA sense
       d) compound (combined) documents in a sense of DITA maps
    
    For a) and b), namespace mechanism is usually used, and DITA is a poor
    choice for this. For c), and d), the DITA is good.
    
    You may ask why DITA is not good for b)? The answer is that in many
    existing applications such as XSLT, Schemas, etc. the established way to
    do the extensions is the use of another namespace. DITA is good only for
    the documents which were DITA from the start.
    
    So, I would like to see something is statement which says more explicitly
    and less abstract _what DITA is good for_.
    
    Regards,
    
    -- Paul
    
    


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