RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues

["JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Sorry -- I've been out of town.

See and See also first
Sort order second
Page range third
Index ref fourth
JoAnn 


JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul.prescod@blastradius.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:44 AM
To: JoAnn Hackos; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues

Which index-related issues would you prioritize? 

- #44 Keep indextermref (or redefine its function)
- #45 Add See, See Also indexing elements
- #45a Add sort order indexing elements
- #45b Add page range indexing elements

Or "other" that I missed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JoAnn Hackos [mailto:joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:49 AM
> To: Paul Prescod; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues
> 
> I completely agree with Paul's list. I would, however, add the index 
> terms. I find the difficulties in developing indexes to be a major 
> problem.
> JoAnn
> 
> 
> JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
> President
> Comtech Services, Inc.
> 710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
> Denver CO 80215
> 303-232-7586
> joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul.prescod@blastradius.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:22 AM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues
> 
> During the meeting we discussed the idea of making a very short list 
> of
> 1.1 features to get an earlier update of DITA out the door. I was 
> asked to be more concrete in my proposal along those lines. My 
> proposal is based on the principle that features that users are 
> already "hacking"
> should be high priority. Therefore, my list is:
> 
> ====
> 
> #20 Extensible metadata attributes
> 	* customers ask for it and the current situation is just not
workable 
> for many
> 
> #38 Bookmap / bkinfo revision
> 	* in widespread quasi-standard use already
> 	* often requested by customers
> 
> #35 Support foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG
> 	* MathML in particular is very popular, and has been hacked by
XMetaL 
> customers
> 
> ====
> 
> I think that if we added a few more that I've missed, we could have a 
> nice short list of urgent features that could be implemented by the 
> summer instead of the end of the year or later. Bookmap is a meaty 
> enough project to make a smaller
> 1.1 still substantial effort and substantial benefit.
> 
>  Paul Prescod
> 
> 
>