RE: [dita] Conformance and interoperability

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

Hi Jeff,

>My problem with "must" for the design
patterns, is that the spec doesn't 
>seem to be specific enough about the details of
the design patterns 
>to make them such a strong requirement.  

I thought the design patterns were very
specific:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/archspec/dtdmod.html

Michael Priestley, Senior Technical
Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect 
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

"Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com>

07/07/2009 09:14 AM

To	"Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@reallysi.com>, Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, "Dana Spradley" <dana.spradley@oracle.com>
cc	"dita" <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject	RE: [dita] Conformance and interoperability

I'm more comfortable with "should" rather
than "must" here. 

My problem with "must" for the design patterns, is that the spec
doesn't seem to be specific enough about the details of the design patterns
to make them such a strong requirement.  

Has this changed in the DITA 1.2 drafts?

And while "should" isn't a strong as "must" it is still
pretty strong and much stronger than other options such as "may".

   -Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
Sent: Tue 7/7/2009 7:31 AM
To: Michael Priestley; Dana Spradley
Cc: dita
Subject: Re: [dita] Conformance and interoperability
 
On 7/6/09 6:26 PM, "Michael Priestley" <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure about the should vs must being a typo. I think it's currently
> must, and on purpose.

Doh! You're right--I was confusing the requirement to have documents with
DTDs or schemas (should) with the design pattern (must).

My apologies for any confusion. Too many hours spent reviewing/writing
too
many pages of this spec.

Cheers,

E.

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