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Subject: Re: [dita] DITA 1.2 suggestion--add a class attribute to the dita element


Grosso, Paul wrote:
>> Therefore I don't see how having specializations of <dita> is 
>> needed to address the requirement.
> 
> At one level you're probably right. 
> 
> But I think it can quickly get quite confusing if we have multiple 
> DTDs that are all called ditabase and all use the same <dita> root tag.

Well there's no requirement that the different shells be called 
"dita_base.dtd" but I understand your point.

> And all DITA documents will have a root tag with both a DITArchVersion 
> and a class attribute which will make it easier to know that they are 
> DITA documents and what kind they are (map vs. topic). Today ditabases 
> are something of an exception in that we have to look at one of the
> child 
> elements to the root tag before we know if it is a DITA document and 
> what kind. 

This is definitely a good thing and one could argue that the lack of it 
in 1.1 is in fact a bug and not a design decision.

Cheers,

Eliot

-- 
W. Eliot Kimber
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Innodata Isogen
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