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Subject: RE: [dita] Request for clarification of DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 April 2007
> -----Original Message----- > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] > Sent: Monday, 2007 April 23 9:05 > To: DITA TC list > Subject: [dita] Request for clarification of DITA Technical > Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 April 2007 > Re: > > * Question about collection-type on reltable or relcolspec elements > * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200704/msg00008.html > > Discussion on the merits of making this change. > > Michael: We should clarify this in the 1.1 spec. Question is should > we remove them in 1.2? > > Don is concerned about how this would look if we then > rearchitect this in the future. > > DECISION: This will be treated as a 1.1 spec comment. Unfortunately, I don't think I got as much clarity as I had hoped for during today's telcon. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious on this subject, but I think I need something in writing. My notes from today's telcon say this about what I heard: The official word is that DITA 1.1 will not define what it means to use the collection-type attribute on the reltable element. It will be reserved for future use--and presumably defined in DITA 1.2. When I transmitted that back to the rest of Arbortext, I was asked: So in DITA 1.1 the use of collection-type is undefined on both reltable and on relcolspec, but its use is defined elsewhere including on relcell? I have no idea what to answer. It doesn't seem right that it's so hard for a TC member--much less someone else--to figure out what our decision is in this case especially after we've ostensibly discussed it at two consecutive TC meetings. Can we please get a definitively worded decision in writing? Michael, I think you might be the best one to take a crack at this. I don't mean spec-ese, I just mean what we decided in layman's terms as the answers to the questions at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200704/msg00008.html paul
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