RE: [dita] Use of "claims to be DITA aware": Why I Said It Like That

["Rodolfo M. Raya" <rmraya@maxprograms.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Su-Laine Yeo [mailto:su-laine.yeo@justsystems.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 10:17 PM
> To: dita; tony.self@hyperwrite.com
> Subject: RE: [dita] Use of "claims to be DITA aware": Why I Said It
> Like That
> 
> Here's a revised proposal with tweaks to more directly address "output
> as DITA" claims:
> 
> "Tools that claim to support DITA authoring, or claim to support
> producing output as DITA, must allow authors to create arbitrary valid
> documents using the complete base DITA vocabulary, i.e. all DITA topic
> and map types, including all base element and attribute types. They
> must
> also must also document procedures to support creating arbitrary valid
> documents using arbitrary DITA specializations. Tools that claim
> partial
> support of DITA authoring or partial support of producing output as
> DITA, but do not support creation of arbitrary valid documents using
> the
> complete base DITA vocabulary, must document what parts of the
> vocabulary are not supported."


Hi Su-Laine,

There are different kinds of DITA processors that go beyond authoring and publishing. Translation tools, for example, also need to be aware of DITA particularities. 

It would be very difficult to write a conformance clause that covers all. Perhaps a simple and permissive one would be better.

Regards,
Rodolfo
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