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Subject: AW: [dita] Machine Industry Task question


Robert,

Thanks for your work and I beg your pardon for delaying things.

Your impression of our needs is very well described in your mail. Let me
just add a few remarks.

In a first step our SC revised the very general (section like) content model
of prereq and postreq to meet more specific needs for preliminary
requirements in a task. We developed a content model that has beed derived
and simplified from the S1000D standard.

After this first approach we received the response from the TC, that these
additional elements must not become part of the generic task type as e.g.
the Software industry would not need these elements.

So we decided to go for a domain specialization for an optional replacing of
the prereq and postreq elements with two new called prelreqs and closereqs
elements. (by using the DITA 1.2 constrain mechanism)

Based on this second approach we had two response:
1. according to DITA 1.1 we are not allowed to specialize from prereq and
postreq.
2. if these two new elements are derived from prereq and postreq, we are
going to limit the use of these elements to task and to topics that are
specialized from task.
To offer more flexibility to specializer who would like to building their
own procedual descriptions based on a generic topic, we decided to derive
prelreqs and closereqs from section and example. 

Best regards

Chris
 
SeicoDyne GmbH
Eichenstrasse 16
CH-6015 Reussbühl
Switzerland
Tel: +41 41 534 66 97
Mob: +41 78 790 66 97
Skype: seicodyne
 
www.seicodyne.com
christian.kravogel@seicodyne.com
 

Member of the DITA Technical Committee
Chairman of the DITA Machine Industry Subcommittee

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 16:44
An: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Betreff: [dita] Machine Industry Task question


Hi,

I had some questions about the mitask implementation and ran them by Chris
Kravogel, who requested that they be discussed at the TC. So, this is a note
to get them on the agenda.

Background: the machine industry task domain contains the elements prelreqs
and closereqs. From what I can tell, these have the same semantic meaning as
prereq and postreq, though with much a much more specific content model.
The prelreqs element is specialized from section, and the closereqs element
is specialized from example. I asked Chris why closereqs comes from example
(it is primarily so that closereqs appears at the end of the task). I
suggested that the 2 elements actually be specialized from prereq and
postreq, which is now legal in DITA 1.2, but the machine industry SC is
reluctant because the domain could no longer be used in tasks that are not
specialized from task.

So, Chris and I would like to discuss these questions:
1. Should our designs anticipate support for specialized tasks that are not
specialized from task, or does the TC disapprove of specializing alternate
tasks with no relationship to the OASIS task?
2. If so, is the TC also OK with specializing closereqs from example, when
it is not an example? Given the close semantic relationship between
prelreqs/prereq and closereqs/postreq, are we OK with having no defined
relationship?
3. If the domain is designed to be used outside of the OASIS DITA Task
module, I have some discomfort with calling it the OASIS "mitask" domain,
because it implies a relationship to the OASIS task - do others share this
discomfort?

Thanks -

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
(507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787 (Good Monday & Thursday)


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