Re: [dita-comment] linktext content model

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

There is a free tool, http://dita-generator.appspot.com/, that creates
shells.

I've written a tutorial (in the process of being updated for DITA 1.2) that
shows how to do it.

It's simply not that hard.

If you yourself don't know how to deploy a document type shell into whatever
DITA processing environment you use then there is a serious problem because
you can't possibly have a general-purpose DITA processor and not have some
way of integrating new shells.

How you do that is of course tool specific.

But I think you must have completely missed my point: I'm not saying you can
use highlight domain elements with the 1.2 map shell *as currently
delivered*, I'm saying anyone is free to create such a shell and, having
done so, it will be a conforming DITA 1.2 map document type.

Cheers,

E.


On 8/31/10 4:32 PM, "Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy@omsys.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:59:34 -0500, Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/31/10 3:23 PM, "Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy@omsys.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Note, however, that because all the topic domains are compatible with maps,
>>>> it means that any DITA user can construct their own map document types that
>>>> include any or all of the domains. So to that degree the standard allows it
>>>> even if the TC-provided map document type does not integrate those domains.
>>> 
>>> However, Oxygen 12 does not... with the draft 1.2 DTDs.
>> 
>> Not sure what you mean--Oxygen 12 doesn't allow you to create a shell with
>> the highlight domain integrated into the map document type?
> 
> No, what I meant was that Oxygen 12 doesn't allow you to use the
> highlight domain in a map without a validation error, which is a
> showstopper, when using the 1.2 DTDs *as shipped*.
> 
> I realize it's nothing to you to fix that, but that is not true
> for most others, not even for a C++ programmer with 35 years'
> experience, me.  Please don't make everyone do it for no technical
> reason at all.
> 
>> I've attached sample of just such a map. I tested it with Oxygen 12 (and
>> 11).
> 
> Thanks.  Now if only I knew what to do with it.  Do you see the
> problem yet???
> 
>> And remember that custom document type shells are not "specialized" they are
>> "configured"--very important difference, because document type shell
>> configuration is 100% mechanical (meaning it can be automated, which it has
>> been), which specialization is an more involved analysis and implementation
>> activity.
> 
> Well, if all I have to do is something I've never done before,
> it's not going to be easy for me, and may not even be possible
> unless I hire a consultant to do it, something few companies can
> afford these days.  It doesn't matter how easy it is FOR YOU and
> for the TC members, if it's a black art to everyone else.
> 
> Thanks for understanding!
> 
> 
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy@omsys.com>
>    DITA2Go site:  http://www.dita2go.com/

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