Re: [dita] No Conformance Section in the Architecture Spec

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

We have discussed the need for a conformance
suite in the past, but judged out of scope for 1.0, 1.1, and at least initially
for 1.2.

One possibility would be to create a
separate subcommittee on conformance to work on a full definition of what
a conforming DITA application means, so that work can proceed without holding
up work on DITA 1.1 and DITA 1.2.

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

"W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>

01/23/2007 03:18 PM

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Subject	[dita] No Conformance Section in the Architecture Spec

There is currently no conformance section in the character
spec and the 
term "conformance" does not occur. There are statements of the
form 
"must conform to" which are implicit conformance statements but
we have 
no general statement of what is and is not a conforming DITA 
application, document, and document type/declaration set. I think that
to be a proper standard we must have clear and formal statements to that
effect.

Cheers,

Eliot
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