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Subject: Fwd: [dita-techcomm] DITA 3.0 Stage 2 release management (13102) proposal question
Forwarding this to the larger list, so as to solicit more feedback. Best,
Kris Kristen James Eberlein Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting Co-chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Charter member, OASIS DITA Adoption Committee www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) -------- Original Message --------
Hello, I am a member of the DITA Technical
Communication Subcommittee and have assumed responsibility for
advancing proposal 13102, release management, which is
currently in stage 2. We have a question about the
possibility/advisability of requesting the addition of an
element to the bookmap’s frontmatter/booklists
element. This element (I’ll call it <release-notes>)
would be a placeholder to represent the output of a release
management aggregation process. First, though, I need to explain what we
are proposing for release management. I have attached a copy
of the current stage 2 proposal for your reference; however, I
believe I can summarize it more succinctly. (My words will be
many, but still fewer than the proposal.J) Not wanting to rely on mechanical processes
(e.g., diff), we need the ability to alert readers to changes,
especially when documents are large. Since we believe that
different organizations might want to process these release
notes differently (and the handling might be different for
different output types as well), we are asking only for the
addition of elements to the topic
prolog. These proposed prolog elements are
based on bookmap’s
bookchangehistory element. (Please see the attached
.png file for a summary of the elements covered by the
proposal.) Note that the proposal is specifically not asking
for any default processing to be provided. Given that we’re asking only for the
addition of elements in which to store release notes, is
booklists an appropriate place for an element such as
<release-notes>? I’m apprehensive about this because the
annotation for the
booklists element in the DTD states, “The
<booklists> element references lists of various kinds
within the book…. It indicates to the processing software that
the author wants the lists generated at the <booklists>
location.” But we’re not asking for any processing. If booklists isn’t an appropriate
place, is there another? Some of us think that having only
elements in the topic with no indication elsewhere as to their
use is too open-ended. Thanks very much. with
best regards Tom
Cihak NMG
Information Development Freescale 512.996.5072 |
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