DITA 1.2 ranking

Here is the list from XMetaL:

Top 5

12001 Embed version numbers into catalogs (#23)

Comments: If this requirement includes versioning entities in the DTD, we would no longer need the "side by side editing" requirement.

12007 Indirection or Keyref architecture (#40)

12013 Referencing a range of elements (#17c)

12020 Allow easy reuse of small pieces of text

12021 Nested Sections Solution

“Simple” list

12005 Recognizing DITA Documents (spec update)

12011 Introduce new, more general task type (#19)

12017 Reconcile metadata elements in topics versus maps (#7)

12018 Create elements for text attributes with translatable text (#11)

12023 Move @format and @scope into rel-atts (#18)

12024 Add ANSI warning labels as addition to element (#5)

12033 Implementation specific attributes

12034 Generic collation element

12037 stem sentence

12042 Provide guidelines for Public IDs (from architectural spec review)

12043 Allow draft-comment in more places, such as directly within the body element (from architectural spec review)

12046 Add data element to figgroup

12050 Add format, scope, and type attributes to DITA elements which do not have them (but use href).

12051 Add class attribute to dita element

12052 Add DITAArchVersion to the dita element

12054 Respect xml:base

12055 Clarify referencing behavior of <chapter> when it points to a map

Thanks, A

Amber Swope

Principal Consultant

JustSystems, Inc.

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