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Subject: RE: [dita] Request for clarification of DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 April 2007
I don't have a record of a response to this. Don, please put this in the agenda for our upcoming meeting. paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 2007 April 24 17:37 > To: DITA TC list > 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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