RE: [dita] Scoping DITA 1.0 [was: OASIS DITA TC: 07 December 2004 meeting reminder]

["Larsen, Seraphim L" <seraphim.l.larsen@intel.com>]

I like Erik Hixson's idea of using a white paper to address the use of the specialization mechanism outside of DITA.  I agree with you, Michael, that this shouldn't be part of the spec -- especially for 1.0.

 

Seraphim

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From: Michael Priestley [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:54 AM
To: Paul Grosso
Cc: DITA TC list
Subject: Re: [dita] Scoping DITA 1.0 [was: OASIS DITA TC: 07 December 2004 meeting reminder]

During the call I advocated adding a 
topic to the spec that laid out the costs/benefits for creating new base 
classes, and potentially covering recommendations for ways to minimize breakage 
of the architecture when/if breakage becomes inevitable (for example, if new 
metadata requirements are absolutely required, and otherprops is not acceptable 
as a workaround). 

But I also feel a 
bit twitchy about having a section of the specification that effectively 
introduces a continuum of compliance. I think we do need to talk about these 
issues, and certainly address them post-1.0, but maybe for 1.0 itself the 
discussion should take place in an external best practices document, where we 
are also planning to discuss relationships to other standards, etc. 

Thoughts? 

Michael Priestley
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
Dept PRG IBM Canada 
 phone: 416-915-8262
Toronto Information 
Development

"Paul Grosso" <pgrosso@arbortext.com>

12/07/2004 12:42 PM

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Subject	[dita] Scoping DITA 1.0 [was: OASIS DITA TC: 07 December 2004 meeting reminder]

I still prefer the minimalist approach to our 1.0 deliverable. 
When we 
were discussing and voting 
on our charter, I understood that our 
first deliverable--DITA 1.0--was pretty much going to be a "rubber 
stamping" of the existing IBM standard 
and current practice with DITA. 
We 
have a second deliverable with which to get more creative. 
  
As much as I agree 
it would be worthwhile to expand the applicability 
of DITA techniques beyond the scope of DITA 1.0, I don't feel 
that we 
should do that in the1.0 
timeframe. I have been on too many standards 
committees that take so long to get out their first release 
that they 
miss the optimal window 
of opportunity; I'd like to avoid that with DITA. 
  
Before we get out 
our first deliverable, I would not spend time trying to 
explain how to use specialization outside of the 
DITA tag set.  And I 
would 
also leave to post-1.0 the enhancements to <tm> and <keyword> 
below. 
  
All that said, if 
the rest of those in the TC don't share my opinion, I'll bow 
to the majority on this. The last thing I want to 
do is add to the time to our 
first 
deliverable by spending another telcon on this issue. 
  
paul

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From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 07 December, 2004 9:21
To: DITA TC list 
Subject: [dita] OASIS DITA TC: 07 December 2004 meeting 
reminder

3. Specification status
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/10226/ditaspec.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/10225/ditaspec.chm
"issues for discussion in specification" (start from "Domains attribute")
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00022.html

4. List issues (triage as potential post-1.0):
- Bugs reported on current DITA DTDs and Schemas
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00023.html
- Should <tm> allow images or logoized content?
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00024.html
- Should <keyword> be allowed to nest?
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00025.html