Re: [dita-sidsc] text for SIDSC proposal for DITA 1.3

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bellave Jayaram-B06913 <B06913@freescale.com> wrote:

A couple of (perhaps naïve) questions:

1. What does included as part of DITA 1.3 mean?

As it happens, for 1.3 that's not exactly clear. Basically, we'd like it to be treated the same way as the eLearning and Machine Industry specializations. In DITA 1.2, that meant being included as part of the DITA 1.2 set of DTDs within the DITA Open Toolkit ../dtd hierarchy. For 1.3, it's likely that the 'official' DTDs will be broken up into a number of different packages, in order to allow folks who want a really basic version of DITA to get the minimum installation. But in any case, we want the SIDSC DTDs to be packaged in analogous ways to the way the 'official' specializations from other DITA TC subcommittees are packaged.

2. SIDSC is a specialization based on DITA 1.2 and has not yet been used with DITA 1.3 so how would it be included as part of DITA 1.3?

DITA 1.3 isn't available to be used yet; all the changes are still in the proposal stage. Once the accepted proposals are actually implemented, there will be a number of alpha and beta iterations of DITA 1.3; we'll have to test and make sure the SIDSC work is compatible with those versions. We probably will want to update our modules as well to be versioned 1.3.

Regards,
Nancy

Regards,

Jayaram

From: dita-sidsc@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:dita-sidsc@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Harrison
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:55 AM
To: Beims Bob-RWBC70
Cc: Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee
Subject: [dita-sidsc] text for SIDSC proposal for DITA 1.3

Hi,

Here is my draft text for the proposal to get the SIDSC work product incorporated into DITA 1.3.

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Proposal: inclusion of semiconductor industry-related specializations in DITA 1.3
The SIDSC has been working for the past few years on specializations related to the semiconductor industry, and produced a set of specializations for registers and their component parts. While there are other specialized information types related to semiconductors that could be developed in the future, the SIDSC would like to have the ones already developed included as part of DITA 1.3, in order to make them 'official'. We think this will facilitate their adoption. The SIDSC is currently working on updating and improving the already-existing documentation for these modules, and expects to complete that work within the 1.3 time frame.
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Let me know what you think of it.

Regards,
Nancy

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Nancy Harrison
Infobridge Solutions
nharrison@infobridge-solutions.com

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