Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Reminder about action item from Wednesday's meeting

[Alan Houser <arh@groupwellesley.com>]

Yes ... alignment with HTML5 also, which allows tables and nested 
"description" (HTML5 label) lists.

IIRC, the TC presented this as a query, not a push-back. So I believe 
our (SC's) explanation is likely sufficient for the TC?

-Alan


On 6/18/17 5:48 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
> I requested on Wednesday that the SC summarize the discussion for the 
> TC, including the reasons for the content model. I need to bring the 
> item back up at the TC and ask whether we're ready to close it or not.
>
> I alignment with HTML5 was another reason ...
>
> Best,
> Kris
>
> Kristen James Eberlein
> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
> www.eberleinconsulting.com
> +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
>
> On 6/18/2017 5:16 PM, Alan Houser wrote:
> > Hi Kris,
> >
> > Are you requesting that somebody from the SC do this? Or are you 
> > requesting a summary of the discussion?
> >
> > I thought the SC agreed that the content model for <dd> is 
> > appropriate, and that reasonable use cases exist for allowing <dl> 
> > and <simpletable>. And that there is some benefit 
> > (simplicity/predictability for authors; maintainability for the TC) 
> > to use the same content model for children of all list element types.
> >
> > -Alan
> >
> >
> > On 6/17/17 10:38 AM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
> > > The TC had asked the subcommittee to do the following:
> > >
> > > Consider content model for dd element -- Should it contain dl? 
> > > simpletable?
> > >
> > > We discussed that Wednesday and I asked that tenor of the discussion 
> > > be communicated to the TC. Can that be done before the TC meeting on 
> > > Tuesday?