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Subject: RE: [dita] Groups - Proposal 12008 - vocabulary and integration constraints (HTML) (IssueConstraints12008.html) uploaded


 

	From: Michael Priestley [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, 2007 August 21 14:02
	To: Eliot Kimber
	Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
	Subject: RE: [dita] Groups - Proposal 12008 - vocabulary and
integration constraints (HTML) (IssueConstraints12008.html) uploaded
	
	I think this is exactly parallel to the domains attribute, 
	and serves a parallel purpose - communicating constraints  
	for those processes that care. We've established previously  
	that you generally don't care, but that others do :-) 
	
	We can have yet again the argument about how or why some  
	companies want to compare constraints when reusing (ie I  
	want to know if you're allowing things that will blow up  
	my processor). But we got nowhere last time. 

________________________________

Fair enough.  So how are we going to get anywhere this time?

Do we just let anyone add any amount of complexity to
the DITA spec because someone thinks it's useful to
some audience (almost anything is going to be [at least
perceived to be] useful to someone in some circumstance)?

Or are we willing to say, some people care about some
things and others don't, but we all care about avoiding
making the DITA standard so complex that it buckles under
its own weight, so we all need to evaluate the cost-benefit
of each proposal, and some of us are going to decide the
cost of added complexity is not worth the benefit *as we
perceive it*, so it is perfectly acceptable to vote against
a given proposal on such grounds?

I fear the road we're on is going to make SGML, HyTime, 
DSSSL, FOSI, XML Schema, and XSL-FO all look simple in 
comparison (yes, I've worked on all those specs and maybe
it's because I have the scars to prove it that I'm trying
to keep DITA from following in the same path).

paul


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