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Subject: RE: [dita] Potential Issue: critdates requires created
Even if you only care about entering a <revised> date, it has to have been created sometime. By being required, it forces authoring and conversion tools to provide a date if the author does not, e.g. from the datestamp as a baseline date. It's been that way, so tools must have provided for it, right? /Bruce > -----Original Message----- > From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:09 PM > To: dita > Subject: [dita] Potential Issue: critdates requires created > > I just noticed, in the context of implementing a > client-specific specialization, that critdates requires > <created> before you can have any number of <revised>. > > I can understand requiring that <created> occurs at most once > and before any <revised> but it seems unnecessarily > constraining to require <created> in all cases. > > In particular, you might not care when something was created > (or necessarily even know when it was created) but care about > when it was revised (for example, because you're revising it > but didn't create it). > > It is a fully backward-compatible change to made <created> > option rather than required in <critdates>. > > Does anyone else agree that requiring <created> is imposing > an unnecessary and inappropriate policy? > > Cheers, > > Eliot > > ---- > Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. > email: ekimber@reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> > office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of > the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com > <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com > <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com > <http://www.rsuitecms.com> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS > TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your > TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgr > oups.php > >
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