Re: Glossary and map conveniences 1.2 proposals

[Erik Hennum <ehennum@us.ibm.com>]

Hi, Esteemed Technical Committee:

Through miscoordination on my part, the glossary enhancement proposal was missing a small but important change (the first two items below). I thought it better to make the change now rather than introduce it at the next meeting. While making the change, I also picked up the other errata items below. The changes to the glossary proposal:

• Made <glossPartOfSpeech> mandatory in <glossBody> for the reasons given in the purpose column of the <glossBody> entry.
• Added <glossPartOfSpeech> to the second, simplified example (because mandatory).
• Added a clarification of validation of extensible enumerations in processing if the controlled values proposal is not approved.
• Renamed "preferred term" to "main term" throughout because the term as a whole can be assigned a status of restricted.
• Added one use case for terminology databases.
• Corrected the base of <glossterm> to be <concept>.
• A couple of improvements in wording.

Here is the updated proposal to enhance the Glossary specialization:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/26130/IssueGlossary12026.html
- for convenience in reading in the browser

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/26132/IssueGlossary12026.dita
- the authoritative source

Many thanks to Kara Warburton for catching that issue.


I also fixed one errata in the map conveniences proposal, which indicated the default value of the type attribute on the <topicsetref> element to be "navigation" instead of "topicset" (the actual target of topicsetref).

Here is the updated proposal to add convenience elements for composing maps that set attribute defaults:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/26129/IssueMapConveniences12047.html
- for convenience in reading in the browser

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/26131/IssueMapConveniences12047.dita
- the authoritative source


Apologies for the churn,


Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com


----- Forwarded by Erik Hennum/Oakland/IBM on 11/15/2007 07:59 PM -----

Erik Hennum/Oakland/IBM wrote on 11/13/2007 08:00:12 AM:

> I've uploaded the following design proposals for consideration for DITA 1.2
> 
> A proposal to enhance the Glossary specialization:
> 
> ...
> 
> A proposal to add convenience elements for composing maps that set 
> attribute defaults:
> 
> ...