OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

There is currently no conformance section in the character spec and the 
term "conformance" does not occur. There are statements of the form 
"must conform to" which are implicit conformance statements but we have 
no general statement of what is and is not a conforming DITA 
application, document, and document type/declaration set. I think that 
to be a proper standard we must have clear and formal statements to that 
effect.

Cheers,

Eliot
-- 
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

We have discussed the need for a conformance
suite in the past, but judged out of scope for 1.0, 1.1, and at least initially
for 1.2.

One possibility would be to create a
separate subcommittee on conformance to work on a full definition of what
a conforming DITA application means, so that work can proceed without holding
up work on DITA 1.1 and DITA 1.2.

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> 
01/23/2007 03:18 PM




To
<dita@lists.oasis-open.org>


cc



Subject
[dita] No Conformance Section in the
Architecture Spec






There is currently no conformance section in the character
spec and the

term "conformance" does not occur. There are statements of the
form

"must conform to" which are implicit conformance statements but
we have

no general statement of what is and is not a conforming DITA

application, document, and document type/declaration set. I think that

to be a proper standard we must have clear and formal statements to that

effect.


Cheers,


Eliot

--

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