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Subject: Re: [dita] Update to Proposal 12008 - vocabulary and integrationconstraints
Erik Hennum <ehennum@us.ibm.com>
08/28/2007 06:25 AM |
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and here's the authoritative version:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/25089/IssueConstraints12008.dita
From my perspective, this change has simplified the approach. Please see
what you think.
I can walk through the modified sections quickly at tomorrow's meeting
if that would be useful. I recognize that this revision comes late enough
that the earliest possible vote on the proposal would be next week.
Thanks,
Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com
Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com> wrote on 08/23/2007 09:05:40
AM:
>
> A few radical thoughts:
> 1) the current level of granularity (being able to compare
> constraints on a per-element basis) may not actually buy us as much
> as we thought - for example, if we know only <section> has been
> constrained, we still don't know whether other elements include
> <section>, and so can't tell whether there is a potential for
> indirect inclusion of inappropriately constrained content. In other
> words, because processes like conref don't know the hierarchy of
> elements in a topic, they can only test constraints on a global
> (per-document/topic) basis anyway.
>
> 2) once we sacrifice the granularity, it's looking like named
> constraint packages might be enough - it might be good practice to
> give the packages descriptive names, like "simplesection",
for the
> sake of maintainers/specializers - but we wouldn't need to list
> every constraint by name in a given package
>
> 3) we could then consider treating each constraint package simply
as
> a domain that restricts either base topic or the domain being
> integrated. In other words, we could simplify the syntax drastically
> and get rid of the constraints attribute.
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