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Subject: Re: [dita-comment] Public Comment
Hi, Martin. You can think of the "ditabase" DTD as a container for one or
more topics of mixed type, such as having task and reference in one file,
either peer or nested. The map is not a topic, but rather a navigator that
associates topics. So typically you would author topics under one of the
standalone DTDs (concept, task, or reference), or, whenever you need to
manage multiple topics of different types, ditabase.dtd. You author the
map separately to indicate the collections of topics for a build. But the
map is orthogonal to the topic--one does not contain the other, so there is
no point to binding map and topic within the same high level doctype of the
ditabase DTD--the processing is not at all the same. Let me know if this
does not answer your question.
Regards,
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Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
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Please respond to [dita-comment] Public Comment
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Comment from: martin.bryan@csw.co.uk
Name: Martin Bryan
Title: Senior Technical Consultant
Organization: CSW
Regarding Specification: DITA
Can you please explain why DITABASE.DTD/XSD does not reference MAP.DTD/XSD.
Where is MAP.DTD/XSD supposed to be referenced from?
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