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Subject: Re: [dita] Proposed Issue: Recognizing DITA Documents
- From: Erik Hennum <ehennum@us.ibm.com>
- To: "Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@blastradius.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:51:52 -0700
Hi, Paul:
Doesn't the existing ditaarch:DITAArchVersion attribute of <topic>, <map>, and their specializations supply this identification? What's missing?
Thanks,
Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com
"Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@blastradius.com>
"Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@blastradius.com>
08/29/2005 12:59 AM
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DITA documents have a variety of different structures. Some have DOCTYPE declarations. Some do not. Those with DOCTYPE declarations can have a variety of different public and system identifiers. This makes it impossible to recognize DITA documents based upon the contents of the file.
It is important to be able to recognize DITA documents in order to know when to apply specialized processing to DITA elements and attributes. For example the attribute “id” has different semantics in DITA than in many other DTDs and schemas.
I propose a short declaration that would identify DITA documents and their DITA versions.
Paul Prescod
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