Forwarded comments for DITA 1.1

[Eric Sirois <esirois@ca.ibm.com>]

Hello,

I discovered a small gap in the propagation of attributes when Attribute
Domain specialization.  The is that not all elements have
base-attribute-extension and @base in their attlist declarations.  This
leaves some gaps on some elements where you would expect/want to use one of
the newly added attributes, but not allowed.
One case is I wish to have translation related attributes wherever xml:lang
is valid.  In the DTDs and XML Schemas for 1.1, this is not possible for a
number of elements. The base-attribute-extension is declared in the group
select-atts. Select-atts is pulled into the univ-atts group.  None of these
elements have univ-atts or select-atts declared in their attribute list.

tblDecl  - entry  - colspec

commonElement  - title

topic
- no-topic-nesting

task
- taskbody

concept
- conbody

reference
- refbody

glossary
- glossterm


I believe that the design intension for the base attribute was that anyone
could add an attribute on any element, except, possibly, for
<no-topic-nesting>. No?

I think we need to fix this for DITA 1.1. The fix is minor and  would
affect both the DTDs and XML Schemas.  We would need to add attribute
declarations for @base and the group base-attribute-extension.
I've discovered a couple of other bugs in the schemas related to this
issue.  These will be fixed regardless of the decision the TC takes in this
matter.

Eric

This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the
OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC.

In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and
to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required
before posting.

Subscribe: dita-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
Unsubscribe: dita-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
List help: dita-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org
List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/
Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf
List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita



Eric A. Sirois
Staff Software Developer
DB2 Universal Database - Information Development
DITA Migration and Tools Development
IBM Canada Ltd. - Toronto Software Lab
Email: esirois@ca.ibm.com
Blue Pages (Internal)

"Transparency and accessibility requirements dictate that public
information and government
transactions avoid depending on technologies that imply or impose a
specific product or
platform on businesses or citizens" - EU on XML-based office document
formats.