RE: [dita] Request for clarification of DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 April 2007

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

I don't have a record of a response to this.

Don, please put this in the agenda for our upcoming meeting.

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2007 April 24 17:37
> To: DITA TC list
> Subject: RE: [dita] Request for clarification of DITA 
> Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 April 2007
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, 2007 April 23 9:05
> > To: DITA TC list
> > Subject: [dita] Request for clarification of DITA Technical 
> > Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 April 2007
> 
> > Re:
> > 
> >  * Question about collection-type on reltable or relcolspec elements
> >  * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200704/msg00008.html 
> > 
> >   Discussion on the merits of making this change.
> > 
> >   Michael: We should clarify this in the 1.1 spec. Question 
> is should 
> >   we remove them in 1.2?
> > 
> >   Don is concerned about how this would look if we then 
> > rearchitect this in the future.
> > 
> >   DECISION: This will be treated as a 1.1 spec comment.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think I got as much clarity as I had
> hoped for during today's telcon.  Maybe I'm just missing
> something obvious on this subject, but I think I need something
> in writing.
> 
> My notes from today's telcon say this about what I heard:
> 
>  The official word is that DITA 1.1 will not define what
>  it means to use the collection-type attribute on the
>  reltable element.  It will be reserved for future use--and
>  presumably defined in DITA 1.2.
> 
> When I transmitted that back to the rest of Arbortext, I
> was asked:
> 
>  So in DITA 1.1 the use of collection-type is undefined on
>  both reltable and on relcolspec, but its use is defined
>  elsewhere including on relcell?
> 
> I have no idea what to answer.
> 
> It doesn't seem right that it's so hard for a TC member--much
> less someone else--to figure out what our decision is in this 
> case especially after we've ostensibly discussed it at two
> consecutive TC meetings.
> 
> Can we please get a definitively worded decision in writing?
> 
> Michael, I think you might be the best one to take a crack
> at this.  I don't mean spec-ese, I just mean what we decided
> in layman's terms as the answers to the questions at
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200704/msg00008.html
> 
> paul
>