Erik,
I agree that the layout of the cover is up
to the process, but the fact is that many folks want a topic that is assigned
the role of the cover. The same goes for the title page. And the interesting
thing about both of these is that, I believe, most of the elements you would
want to represent the information are already in the bookmap specialization.
For example, the title, author, edition number, publisher, etc. are all in the
bookmap specialization and would hazard that having the role without every
possible piece of data is better than not having the role.
I guess I’m not understanding the
difference between assigning a role to a topic to be a preface versus to be a
title page.
Thanks, A
From: Erik Hennum
[mailto:ehennum@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006
12:41 PM
To: Amber
Swope
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Subject: RE: [dita] bookmap
specialization question
Hi, Amber:
In the preface case, the bookmap is assigning a role to a topic. Without
knowing the topic's role, a process can't apply special treatment to the
preface topic. Examples of that special treatment might be as trivial as
outputting a "Preface" label on the page or as sophisticated as
applying special weight to high-frequency words from the preface when
generating a fulltext search index for a book.
For the cover of the book, bookmap certainly needs to capture all of the
information that should appear on the cover. After that, however, the layout of
the cover is up to the process (as part of the separation of presentation and
content).
Hoping that clarifies,
Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com
"Amber Swope"
<amber.swope@xmetal.com>
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Thanks, Erik.
I guess
I don’t understand that difference between specifying an element for generating
a cover or preface v. a preface, which the bookmap specification does provide.
Thanks,
A
From: Erik Hennum [mailto:ehennum@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:05 AM
To: Amber Swope
Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dita] bookmap specialization question
Salutations,
Amber:
I think the expectation is that the book information provides everything needed
to generate cover and title pages and that, like all presentation, the
specification of the layout of the cover pages should be separate from the
content of the book.
A question is whether there might be easy ways for adopters to define that
layout -- but that question could be investigated separately without slowing
down the completion of bookmap.
Hoping that's interesting,
Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com
"Amber
Swope" <amber.swope@xmetal.com>
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Hi there,
In reviewing the bookmap specialization, I realized that it contains elements
for many of the common pieces of a book, but is missing elements for cover and
title page. Is there a reason for this? I expected there to be elements so that
you can specify a <topicref> for these items. Is it too late to add them?
Thanks, A
Amber Swope
Principal Consultant
XMetaL, a JustSystems company
Cell: 503-347-3569
amber.swope@xmetal.com
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