RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues

["Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@blastradius.com>]

Which index-related issues would you prioritize? 

- #44 Keep indextermref (or redefine its function)
- #45 Add See, See Also indexing elements
- #45a Add sort order indexing elements
- #45b Add page range indexing elements

Or "other" that I missed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JoAnn Hackos [mailto:joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:49 AM
> To: Paul Prescod; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues
> 
> I completely agree with Paul's list. I would, however, add 
> the index terms. I find the difficulties in developing 
> indexes to be a major problem.
> JoAnn 
> 
> 
> JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul.prescod@blastradius.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:22 AM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] My proposals for top DITA issues
> 
> During the meeting we discussed the idea of making a very 
> short list of
> 1.1 features to get an earlier update of DITA out the door. I 
> was asked to be more concrete in my proposal along those 
> lines. My proposal is based on the principle that features 
> that users are already "hacking"
> should be high priority. Therefore, my list is:
> 
> ====
> 
> #20 Extensible metadata attributes
> 	* customers ask for it and the current situation is 
> just not workable for many
> 
> #38 Bookmap / bkinfo revision
> 	* in widespread quasi-standard use already
> 	* often requested by customers
> 
> #35 Support foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG
> 	* MathML in particular is very popular, and has been 
> hacked by XMetaL customers
> 
> ====
> 
> I think that if we added a few more that I've missed, we 
> could have a nice short list of urgent features that could be 
> implemented by the summer instead of the end of the year or 
> later. Bookmap is a meaty enough project to make a smaller 
> 1.1 still substantial effort and substantial benefit.
> 
>  Paul Prescod
> 
> 
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