OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

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  • 1.  Question about

    Posted 06-25-2012 11:58
    A question from Radu Coravu for us to consider. Kris


  • 2.  Re: [dita] Question about

    Posted 06-25-2012 12:43
    My expectation would be that editors would show the title, even in a map viewer like Oxygen's Map Manager. That's because the value of titles on topic groups is for authors, letting you label topic groups in order to clarify their intent and use. If the spec doesn't make it clear that that behavior is allowed, I think we need to clarify it. It is definitely the case that topicgroup titles should not contribute to the navigation hierarchy defined in a map as reflected in final-form deliverables, but I don't think that same restriction should apply to authoring environments. Cheers, Eliot On 6/25/12 6:57 AM, "Kristen James Eberlein" <kris@eberleinconsulting.com> wrote: > A question from Radu Coravu for us to consider. > > Kris > > > >
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  • 3.  RE: [dita] Question about

    Posted 06-25-2012 16:51
    I'm not necessarily opposed to that behavior, although that would be opposite behavior from other navtitles, which, if specified, replace the title both in the authoring environment and the output.
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  • 4.  RE: [dita] Question about

    Posted 06-25-2012 17:44
    The title was added as a by-product of the requirement to make @navtitle into an element - we added it into <topicmeta>, which meant that there was no way to exclude it from the topicgroup context. The specification includes a note about this saying that the element must be ignored for processing: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/topicgroup.html#topicgroup As for editing, I think I'd tend to agree with Eliot's comment that it can be used to help an author, though I disagree that this was the intent - it was only added because we could not prevent it in the DTD / XSD implementation, which is why the specification explicitly says to ignore it. Similar language (and reasoning) exists for the topichead element - the DTD / XSD cannot actually require the navtitle element now that it can be specified in either location, but the intent is still to treat this as requiring a title. Robert D Anderson IBM Authoring Tools Development Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit ( http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/ ) From: "Mullins, Cheri" <Cheri.Mullins@amd.com> To: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@rsicms.com>, dita <dita@lists.oasis-open.org> Date: 06/25/2012 12:56 Subject: RE: [dita] Question about <navtitle> in <topicgroup> allowed by DITA 1.2 Sent by: <dita@lists.oasis-open.org> I'm not necessarily opposed to that behavior, although that would be opposite behavior from other navtitles, which, if specified, replace the title both in the authoring environment and the output.
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