RE: [dita] How much flexibility do specializers have to make exceptions tobehaviors that are outlined in the DITA standard?

[Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com]

"Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com> wrote
on 10/01/2008 10:18:01 AM:

> This is a note that Don Day asked me to send out during yesterday's
DITA
> TC call.
> 
> About a week ago I restarted the discussion about what the DITA Standard
> REQUIRES, strongly RECOMMENDS, and what is OPTIONAL.  So far
the
> restarted discussion has been between just me, Michael, and Eliot.
 What
> I'd like to find out from others on the TC is if these issues are
> important enough to continue to spend time on them or not?
> 
> So please let me know by sending a short reply either to me or to
the
> DITA TC list.  I'll summarize the responses before next Tuesday's
DITA
> TC call.

I care enough that implementations that want to add
extended functionality are not actively prevented from doing so.  Hence
my remarks about un-enumerating @collection-type.

I don't mind if such implementations are labelled
with a lesser conformance status.  I don't mind if the DITA standard
insists that such implementations use prefixes like "x-" a la
other standards.

-- 
Deborah Pickett
Information Architect, Moldflow Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com