question on <resource> element in bookmap

[Nancy P Harrison <nancyph@us.ibm.com>]

Hi,

I'm working on reference pages for the
new bookmap elements and a having trouble documenting the <resource>
element. It is currently in the DTD as a child of 
either <personname> or <organizationnamedetails>,
basically a part of the authoring information.  But I don't have any
idea what it's supposed to be.  It's a specialization of <xref>,
and the content model is 

<!ELEMENT resource    
   (%words.cnt;)*>
<!ATTLIST resource    
   href          CDATA   #IMPLIED
         
                keyref    
   CDATA #IMPLIED
         
                type    
     CDATA   #IMPLIED
         
                %univ-atts;
         
                format    
   CDATA   #IMPLIED
         
                scope    
    (local|peer|external)   "external"
         
                outputclass  
CDATA   #IMPLIED
>

I can't find an element with this name
in xNAL, DocBook, or Dublin Core, and have no idea how to define it.  I've
discussed it with some of the TC folks from IBM, and none of them know
what it does either, though it shows up in our original bkinfo design.

So, I'm inviting anyone who has a need
for the <resource> element as part of the authoring information -
and therefore has a definition for what it is - to provide me with that
information.  If no one is using it, then I will ask that it be removed
from the bookmap architecture at Tuesday's TC meeting, before it ends up
in DITA 1.1 and gets much harder to remove.

Thanks,

Nancy


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Nancy Harrison
IBM Rational Software
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