Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Question about lightweight DITA maps

[Mark Giffin <mark@markgiffin.com>]

    Hi Robert,
    
    The Markdown-based MDITA map is mentioned in the original Committee
    Note here:
    
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01.html#example-of-an-mdita-map
    
    There is no support for that map at all in tools, that I have seen.
    The DITA OT does not support it, neither does Oxygen. We have been
    discussing using YAML instead of Markdown in several recent LwDITA
    SC meetings (July 11, 2022, 27 June 2022). 
    
    In my experience with real-world Markdown doc systems (non-lwdita),
    they usually use YAML for their TOC. IBM MarkedIt (Jenifer
    Schlodtfeldt) uses YAML.
    
    An example of the Markdown MDITA map is still in a late model
    version of the in-progress lwdita spec on page 63:
    
    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/70394/lwdita.pdf
    
    But other places in that PDF have notes "Replace with YAML!" like
    page 59. So YAML is still a live issue.
    
    Mark

On 11/9/2022 9:58 AM, Robert Anderson wrote:

Hi all,

Passing along a question that came up recently - is there support for a markdown version of the lightweight DITA map? If so - is there a convention on how to refer to it? For example, would you call it a "mditamap"? I'm thinking of a case where you need to refer to that map from a full DITA map, and might want to set something like format="mditamap" on the reference.

It looks like there was some discussion of this back in 2019, but I'm not sure how it resolved - https://github.com/jelovirt/org.lwdita/issues/45

Thanks,

Robert