Book title in bookmap

[Robert D Anderson <robander@us.ibm.com>]

Don and I were working on the bookmap DTD, and ran in to a problem. When we
originally put the proposal together, we were planning for one large
release rather than the current 1.1 and 1.2 releases. As part of the
design, we counted on proposed feature number 11, which had already been
approved:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/13734/IssueNumber11.html

This is the proposal to make translatable attributes into elements. One of
the items in that proposal is to add a <title> element to map, to be used
instead of the title attribute. The book model really needs this title
element in order to allow for more structured book titles, such as title +
library information. Unfortunately, feature #11 was moved to 1.2, so it
will not be released with bookmap. I see three possibilities:
1. We force the title into the bookmeta element. This could work, but will
cause conflicts with the title element once 1.2 is released (and bookmap is
updated for the change).
2. We do that one part of #11 in 1.1 -- we just allow the title element
inside map. Leave the others for 1.2.
3. We let the 1.1 scope creep to include all of #11

I would vote for #2 - the partial implementation that brings the title
element into maps. Any other thoughts?

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
(507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787