OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC

We have some customers who want to be able to group
their appendices in their bookmap and have a topichead
that shows up in the ToC for the group of appendices.

This would parallel the way one can group chapters
in a part.

In fact, the first suggestion was to allow appendix
in part.  This would be an acceptable solution for
our customers.

Another solution is to add a specialization of topicref 
called "appendices" (or whatever) and change the content 
of bookmap to be:



where appendices has a content model of (%appendix;)*.

Can the DITA TC consider this issue and see if either or
both of these solutions is something we can do to bookmap?

paul

Works for me, though none of my clients ever asked to group appendices
in this way. Is this a common request? I'm wondering whether these
clients should just specialize bookmap themselves.

I'd like to ask the DITA Adoption TC for their thoughts on this. I'll
forward your email to the Adoption TC and let you know if we get any
useful input.

Gershon



                                                

					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
                                                

                                                    
                                                        
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From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:08 PM
To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [dita] allowing appendices to be grouped

We have some customers who want to be able to group their appendices in
their bookmap and have a topichead that shows up in the ToC for the
group of appendices.

This would parallel the way one can group chapters in a part.

In fact, the first suggestion was to allow appendix in part.  This would
be an acceptable solution for our customers.

Another solution is to add a specialization of topicref called
"appendices" (or whatever) and change the content of bookmap to be:



where appendices has a content model of (%appendix;)*.

Can the DITA TC consider this issue and see if either or both of these
solutions is something we can do to bookmap?

paul

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I think this is a very valid use case.


-seth

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seth park
information architect
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
seth.park@freescale.com
512.895.2463



                                                

					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
                                                

                                                    
                                                        
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From: Gershon Joseph (gerjosep) [mailto:gerjosep@cisco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:55 AM
To: Grosso, Paul; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [dita] allowing appendices to be grouped

Works for me, though none of my clients ever asked to group appendices
in this way. Is this a common request? I'm wondering whether these
clients should just specialize bookmap themselves.

I'd like to ask the DITA Adoption TC for their thoughts on this. I'll
forward your email to the Adoption TC and let you know if we get any
useful input.

Gershon


Original Message-----
From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:08 PM
To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [dita] allowing appendices to be grouped

We have some customers who want to be able to group their appendices in
their bookmap and have a topichead that shows up in the ToC for the
group of appendices.

This would parallel the way one can group chapters in a part.

In fact, the first suggestion was to allow appendix in part.  This would
be an acceptable solution for our customers.

Another solution is to add a specialization of topicref called
"appendices" (or whatever) and change the content of bookmap to be:



where appendices has a content model of (%appendix;)*.

Can the DITA TC consider this issue and see if either or both of these
solutions is something we can do to bookmap?

paul

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