Re: [dita] DITA 1.1 DTD error

[Robert D Anderson <robander@us.ibm.com>]

Hi Paul,

It has been that way since DITA 1.0. It looks like it was correct back in
the pre-OASIS version, which means it may have been a casualty of the DTD
spacing/comment cleanup at the time the standard was approved.

Because it was in DITA 1.0, this gets into the realm of the backwards
compatibility vs bug area. It is clearly a bug. But, it's just as clearly
backwards incompatible to change the name of an attribute. Changing it will
break existing 1.0 documents, if by any chance somebody is using the
attribute today.

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
(507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787

"Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote on 01/06/2007 11:32:10 AM:

> We just noticed that the longdescref attribute on the
> object element in commonElements.mod is missing the
> trailing "f" in the version 1.1 dated 30 Nov 2006 available at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/21381/dit
> a1.1.zip
>
> <!--                    LONG NAME: Object (Streaming/Executable
> Data)                           -->
> <!ELEMENT object        ((%desc;)?, (%param;)*,
>                          (%foreign.unknown.incl;)*)                  >
> <!ATTLIST object
>              declare    (declare)                        #IMPLIED
>              classid    CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              codebase   CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              data       CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              type       CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              codetype   CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              archive    CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              standby    CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              height     NMTOKEN                          #IMPLIED
>              width      NMTOKEN                          #IMPLIED
>              usemap     CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              name       CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              tabindex   NMTOKEN                          #IMPLIED
>              longdescre CDATA                            #IMPLIED
>              %univ-atts;
>              outputclass
>                         CDATA                            #IMPLIED    >
>
> Is there a later version that I missed?
>
> If not, then this looks like a bug in the DTDs.
>
> paul