OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

We already have a number of proposals on the books for 1.3 related to filters, including some that mention a relationship with a subjectscheme map, but none seem to make explicit the following requirement: - a ditaval and taxonomy should be applicable together such that if the ditaval excludes a value that exists in the taxonomy, and document instances contain values that are descendants of that value in the taxonomy, then the document instances should be filtered just as if they referenced the ancestor value instead of the descendant values. Example: a taxonomy declares "fruit" as a parent of "apple" and "orange" content markup has metadata for "apple, "orange" ditaval excludes "fruit" therefore content marked up with "apple" or "orange" should be excluded, in addition to content marked up with "fruit" Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Total Information Experience (TIE) Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

Note from last week's DITA TC discussion: - the ditaval should get an optional element that references the taxonomy to use; when the element is absent, then the ditaval values are interpreted literally, without recourse to a taxonomy to find subordinate values. Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Total Information Experience (TIE) Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/25 From:         Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA To:         dita <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>, Date:         08/07/2012 10:56 AM Subject:         [dita] Filtering with taxonomy relationships: new proposal for DITA 1.3 Sent by:         <dita@lists.oasis-open.org> We already have a number of proposals on the books for 1.3 related to filters, including some that mention a relationship with a subjectscheme map, but none seem to make explicit the following requirement: - a ditaval and taxonomy should be applicable together such that if the ditaval excludes a value that exists in the taxonomy, and document instances contain values that are descendants of that value in the taxonomy, then the document instances should be filtered just as if they referenced the ancestor value instead of the descendant values. Example: a taxonomy declares "fruit" as a parent of "apple" and "orange" content markup has metadata for "apple, "orange" ditaval excludes "fruit" therefore content marked up with "apple" or "orange" should be excluded, in addition to content marked up with "fruit" Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Total Information Experience (TIE) Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/25