Lightweight DITA SC

  • 1.  Specialization model - elements and attributes

    Posted 05-26-2016 01:47
    I wanted to draw attention to my slides from the Lightweight DITA pre/overview at CMS/DITA North America (updated with slides borrowed from my joint presentation with Carlos Evia and Jenifer Schlotfeldt). It's got what I believe to be an up-to-date view of the proposed template specialization model, with a simple example http://www.slideshare.net/mpriestley/lightweight-dita-a-preoverview The technical overview (as opposed to business case/scenarios) starts on slide 22. The template specialization overview is on slides 30-35. Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Enterprise Content Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley


  • 2.  Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Specialization model - elements and attributes

    Posted 05-26-2016 13:31
    I feel like a bad student because I missed our last meeting and will miss the next one (Memorial Day in the US). Should we/I work on the new mappings of HDITA and MarkDITA? Carlos - --  Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Director of Professional and Technical Writing Associate Professor of Technical Communication Department of English Center for Human-Computer Interaction Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 On May 25, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Michael Priestley < mpriestl@ca.ibm.com > wrote: I wanted to draw attention to my slides from the Lightweight DITA pre/overview at CMS/DITA North America (updated with slides borrowed from my joint presentation with Carlos Evia and Jenifer Schlotfeldt). It's got what I believe to be an up-to-date view of the proposed template specialization model, with a simple example http://www.slideshare.net/mpriestley/lightweight-dita-a-preoverview The technical overview (as opposed to business case/scenarios) starts on slide 22. The template specialization overview is on slides 30-35. Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Enterprise Content Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley


  • 3.  Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Specialization model - elements and attributes

    Posted 05-26-2016 17:53
    Sounds like a plan! Should we try through email, or have some side meetings? Who else is interested? For the HDITA mappings, I've got a couple of concerns with an element approach:  - how top-heavy the declarations will make the file (eg if we have five lines of _javascript_ per new element, and a specialization with twenty new elements in it, that's 100 lines of freight - potentially enough to double the size of a small topic)  - whether we need to care about their specialization architecture, which seems to be mostly extension rather than restriction, and would also mean that we don't get new element names  - can we get decent fallback behavior without stylesheets? or will this approach have a hard dependency on stylesheet instructions for each new element? That said, I see the attraction of an element-based approach, and if we can make it work and it has value we can demonstrate then I think it looks cooler and bridges to XDITA more clearly. For MDITA, I think we just need to take a hard look at what the dependencies are for each extension we propose. Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Enterprise Content Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley From:         Carlos Evia <cevia@vt.edu> To:         Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA Cc:         dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org Date:         05/26/2016 09:31 AM Subject:         Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Specialization model - elements and attributes Sent by:         <dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org> I feel like a bad student because I missed our last meeting and will miss the next one (Memorial Day in the US). Should we/I work on the new mappings of HDITA and MarkDITA? Carlos --- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Director of Professional and Technical Writing Associate Professor of Technical Communication Department of English Center for Human-Computer Interaction Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201 On May 25, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Michael Priestley < mpriestl@ca.ibm.com > wrote: I wanted to draw attention to my slides from the Lightweight DITA pre/overview at CMS/DITA North America (updated with slides borrowed from my joint presentation with Carlos Evia and Jenifer Schlotfeldt). It's got what I believe to be an up-to-date view of the proposed template specialization model, with a simple example http://www.slideshare.net/mpriestley/lightweight-dita-a-preoverview The technical overview (as opposed to business case/scenarios) starts on slide 22. The template specialization overview is on slides 30-35. Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Enterprise Content Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley