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Subject: Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Footnote desired in LW DITA?


I'd say so. I haven't seen a profile recently but they're typical web teams currently in your usual CMS tools (Word > Sitecore, or whatever else WCMS) looking to do more structured, reusable content in multiple formats, so assuming we've not totally done a left turn on the profile then for sure!

On 3 April 2016 at 15:14, Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
Just to confirm: otherwise they fit the profile for Lightweight? 

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On Apr 3, 2016, at 3:26 AM, Noz Urbina <noz.urbina@urbinaconsulting.com> wrote:

I've got a client in banking right now and footnote is absolutely vital because you can't market without legal notes. Similar applies in Pharma. Citations which are really treated as footnotes. I'm not sure how that plays in here. That applies to Banking, Pharma, and I've got some clients in financial services software that use a lot of quotes from magazines in this way.

On 1 April 2016 at 22:30, Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
Hi Jan,

I agree with Don that this is the right way to communicate it - what the list is for.

I also fully expected that as the different focus areas developed out specializations to test the architecture we'd find gaps - so this is normal and expected, and why we're waiting for each group's specialization work to complete before finalizing a spec for topic and map.

All that said, the one question I've got about footnote is whether it's a useful requirement going forward, or only for legacy materials. The marketing folks I had talked with about footnote at IBM (and we had some examples) thought that it would be better not to have the footnote going forward.

Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley



From:        Don Day <donday@donrday.com>
To:        dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Date:        04/01/2016 03:28 PM
Subject:        Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Footnote desired in LW DITA?
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Jan, this list IS a sounding board for ideas. Our discussion format is less rigorous than an RFE or RFC item, and Michael tends to use a consensus approach to closure on things. With that, let the debate begin.

And after thinking at length about how HTML5's <footnote> element might inform on content model, I realized finally that your question may have been about current DITA's <fn> element, which is not yet in lightweight DITA. This element IS an archetype-level element that finds many uses in specializations. As we look to adding things back in later on in the LwD process, I agree that this element deserves consideration.

When I think of a topic architecture, I look for structures that underpin many common instances. Is a particular item an instance, or an archetype or architectural feature? The archetypes and architectural features go into the core, the instances go into the specializations.

<fn> and <indexterm> (a bird of a feather) are archetypes that uniquely contain relocatable content. Generally we place these elements inline for context but render their content elsewhere (contrasted with referenceable content, content from elsewhere that gets rendered at the point of reference). I think they are essential in a full implementation. Granted, it is hard to train writers to think of content as objects rather than instances, but this is a case where indirection provides great capability for the types of queries and renditions that will drive future content delivery.

So if this is the case of "footnote" that you requested, then I am fully with you. I suspect that Michael will refocus on the adequateness of inner content models once we finish the overall structure.

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On 3/30/2016 5:01 AM, Jan Benedictus wrote:
HI all.

While migrating sample content to Lw DITA to test the new Marketing specialization, we ran into the limitation that there is no footnote in the schema. I understand that 'scope-creep' is always a risk, but still it feels that a footnote is a pretty versatile requirement? It wouldn t feel logical to put this in a specialization?

I am not sure if this is the right way to express such findings, so  my second question is more procedure-related: what is the correct way to communicate such RFC's?

Cheers!
Jan


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