OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

  • 1.  Re: [dita] Attribute Specialization

    Posted 01-22-2007 23:21 
    Michael Priestley wrote:
> 
> Are you sure you're looking at the most recent draft? I remember that 
> to-do hung around for a while after the attribute specialization was 
> documented, but it should be gone from the latest draft.

OK, I got the latest draft and I see the new text.

> The attribute specialization pattern is documented in the latest draft. 
> The inheritance ancestry of a new attribute is documented in the domains 
> attribute.

Maybe I'm being dense, but I didn't see anything that looks like a 
declaration of attributes as specializations of some base attribute. If 
it's elsewhere in the document there should be a pointer to under 
"Specialization of attributes".

Cheers,

E.

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  • 2.  Re: [dita] Attribute Specialization

    Posted 01-22-2007 23:41 

    There is a section called "Specialization
of attributes" - the specialization section of the spec is divided
into sections on content, design, and processing, which does separate some
concerns (I believe that was one of your own requirements in DITA 1.1)
but unfortunately does separate some others - you're right that we need
more cross references, here in particular.

    Michael Priestley
    
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
    
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
    
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25


    

    

    
"W. Eliot Kimber"
<ekimber@innodata-isogen.com> 

    01/22/2007 06:20 PM

    		

    

    


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    Michael Priestley wrote:
    
>
    
> Are you sure you're looking at the most recent draft? I remember that
    
> to-do hung around for a while after the attribute specialization was
    
> documented, but it should be gone from the latest draft.

    
OK, I got the latest draft and I see the new text.

    
> The attribute specialization pattern is documented in the latest draft.
    
> The inheritance ancestry of a new attribute is documented in the domains
    
> attribute.

    
Maybe I'm being dense, but I didn't see anything that looks like a
    
declaration of attributes as specializations of some base attribute. If
    
it's elsewhere in the document there should be a pointer to under
    
"Specialization of attributes".

    
Cheers,

    
E.

    
--
    
W. Eliot Kimber
    
Professional Services
    
Innodata Isogen
    
8500 N. Mopac, Suite 402
    
Austin, TX 78759
    
(214) 954-5198

    
ekimber@innodata-isogen.com
    
www.innodata-isogen.com


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