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Subject: Re: [dita] Mixed content in DITA
Not to mention the influence of BookMaster's modularinformation/ledi model on the design of section. The BookMaster reference, which naturally had some influence on DITA's capabilities, states that the "language element description item" or ledi element has the design property that "Each LEDI class can have a different generated title or no title." The original design choice in BookMaster was to define a null-value attribute referenced by indirection; DITA sections move that thought to an optional title (although @spectitle retains some of that original design thought). Regards, -- Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee IBM Lead DITA Architect 11501 Burnet Rd., MS 9037D018, Austin TX 78758 Ph. 512-838-8550 (T/L 678-8550) "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm. com> To Eliot Kimber 04/09/2005 11:19 <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com> PM cc dita@lists.oasis-open.org Subject Re: [dita] Mixed content in DITA Again, task provides an example here. You may want to generate titles for the sections in a task: <prereq>, <context>, <result>, <postreq> - but I don't think it's obviously wrong to avoid titles for them. The majority of tasks written in IBM had these sections semantically without titling them, which is why they became sections without either explicit or generated titles in the task specialization. I can see why someone might choose to generate titles for these sections. I can also see why someone might choose not too (and indeed that's the current default). I'm not prepared to say either choice is wrong. Michael Priestley mpriestl@ca.ibm.com Eliot Kimber <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com> To 04/09/2005 12:39 PM dita@lists.oasis-open. org cc Subject Re: [dita] Mixed content in DITA Paul Prescod wrote: > a) have sections (or specializations of sections) without titles You might specialize section or topic to a type for which the title is either invariant or derived from some other property, in which case it need not be authored. But that is different from a topic or section that has no title of any sort, authored or generated, which I think is simply wrong. Cheers, E. -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 9390 Research Blvd, #410 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 372-8155 ekimber@innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com
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