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Subject: Re: [dita] Issue With Requirement for Trailing Space in class= Values
Ogden, Jeff wrote: > Wouldn't adding a non-name trailing character to the class attribute > value cause problems for processors that care about the specific > position of the item within the class attribute? Some processors may > look for the last topic/element token or for the second to last. Or for > processors that are generalizing a DITA document since you might mistake > the character as the last token and end up generalizing an element to > itself? I suppose those could be problems--hadn't considered checks that look for the last non-blank token. That would certainly be a compatibility issue. Hmph. Is there some history for why the trailing blank design was chosen over a trailing non-blank? People have already asked me and I wasn't involved with DITA when that decision was made but I assume it was not made without appropriate consideration. > Are the attribute values that have the trailing space stripped present > in the document instance? Aren't the class attribute values typically in > the DTD or schema rather than the instance? I can't imagine that > MarkLogic is "correcting" the DTD or schema (but what do I know?). Is > using the default class attribute value from the DTD or schema a way out > of this problem? The documents get normalized as part of the import to MarkLogic, which as far as I know does not use either DTDs or schemas to handle defaulted attributes (but I could be wrong--I'm no MarkLogic expert). The problem of course is that the class= attribute is not fixed, only defaulted, so there's nothing invalid about an instance that changes it. On export we can of course just suppress the class= attributes (and other known DITA "fixed" attributes). But that doesn't help in the case of, for example, trying to query directly against the database on class. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com
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