RE: [dita] Two versions of ditabase

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ekimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2009 September 22 11:09
> To: Kristen James Eberlein; dita
> Subject: Re: [dita] Two versions of ditabase
> 
> On 9/22/09 11:03 AM, "Kristen James Eberlein" <keberlein@pobox.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Can someone reiterate for the me the naming and linguistics issues
> that
> > we would have to address if the TC was to ship two ditabase DTDs?
> 
> You would need at a minimum two different public IDs that resolve to
> two
> different "ditabase.dtd" files in two different directories.
> 
> More usefully, you would have two different DTDs, e.g. "ditabase.dtd"
> and
> "ditabase-with-general-task.dtd", so the two could live in the same
> directory.
> 

Besides, the point (I thought) of the general task was mostly
to be a basis for specialization, and if someone does create
such a specialization, they are going to have to create their
own ditabase containing their specialization anyway, so it's
unclear that the TC should create a ditabase-with-general-task.
If a user really wants such a thing, they can create it themselves.

But we expect most people who are using DITA out of the box to
be using the (non-general) task as they have always been to date.

paul