Re: [dita] Attribute Specialization

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

"W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>
wrote on 01/26/2007 04:36:22 PM:

> It can't happen for 1.1 but I still thinking we will need a way to
allow 
> specialization-specific attributes on individual specialized element
> types. Otherwise I am forced to put anything that would otherwise
be an 
> attribute into a specialized subelement, and only then in a context
> where there is a repetition of a base type I can specialize from (e.g.,
> elements that allow <ph> in their content.

Absolutely. I believe there's a proposal on the slate
for 1.2.
> 
> For example, in a specialization I'm doing now, I have specialized
> paragraphs that have invariant paragraph numbers that needs to be
> captured in the markup. Normally this number would be an attribute
since 
> it's a property of the paragraph and not part of it's core content
(that 
> is, it's an identifier that happens to be displayed in most renderings).
> 
> But since I can't (legally) add attributes, it seems like my only
choice 
> is to create a specialized phrase that holds the paragraph number.
> 
> Or have I missed something?

<data> might be a better choice than <ph>
but otherwise I think you are correct.

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