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Subject: Re: [dita] Policy Decision: Loose or Not
Dana Spradley wrote: > This would be a rather extreme change of policy, wouldn't it? > > As I understand it, ditabase is expliticly *non*-normative, and as the > spec currently says any nesting or other arrangement of topics in it > "has no particular output implications; it simply allows you to create > multiple topics of different types at the same level in a single document." Unless I've completely misunderstood the implications of how things are delivered, all the declarations are normative. That is, the DITA standard consists of the architecture specification, the language reference, and the accompanying DTD and XSD declarations, all of which are normative. That is, the very fact that we need to have language in the language reference about when different containment rules apply indicates that we have two different but normative rules. If it wasn't normative then we wouldn't have the language in the spec. Cheers, E. -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 8500 N. Mopac, Suite 402 Austin, TX 78759 (214) 954-5198 ekimber@innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com
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