Re: [dita] Missing (or extra) attribute on <searchtitle>

[Don R Day <donrday@contelligencegroup.com>]

While the spec does mention presentation as a particular use case, it also starts off by saying that outputclass is a role. You probably anticipated that I'd prefer retaining this more general sense of potential use. Although its lack of definition would have been made known by now had anyone actually tried to treat this instance as a role, I'd hesitate using that argument to elide every such unused case in the spec. I won't lay down in the road over removing it, but I think the spirit of the definition is better served by treating this as a bug fix for the DTD/XSD.
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On 11/27/2013 3:28 PM, Robert D Anderson wrote:

The specification topic for the searchtitle element says that it has
@outputclass (see the last row in the attribute table):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/searchtitle.html

The DTD and XSD implementations have never had it. In this case, since the
attribute was never implemented and nobody has noticed, we would be safe to
"fix" it by either adding the attribute or by removing it from the spec. I
don't have a preference - it doesn't hurt to have there, but this element
is intended to hold things that shows up in search results, so adding a
presentation class is not really relevant (probably why it was never
noticed).

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/)


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