RE: [dita] Organization of Tagname Parameter Entities in DTD Modules

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

This sounds like a reasonable change to make in 1.3.  I'd really 
rather we didn't keep doing major reorganization to the 1.2 files
at this time.

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2009 July 22 9:31
> To: dita
> Subject: [dita] Organization of Tagname Parameter Entities in DTD
Modules
> 
> Currently, the DTD module pattern requires declaration of parameter
entities
> for each element type defined in a module for later use in content
models.
> These parameter entities are in the .mod file.
> 
> However, with the advent of the ability in DITA 1.2 to do per-element
> content model overrides, I think these entities should be in the .ent
files,
> so that they are available to content model overrides specified in
shell
> DTDs.
> 
> For example, if I have shell "myconcept.dtd" and I want to extend the
> content model of title to allow a new phrase type (e.g.,
"my-title-phrase"),
> without this change I have to declare the entities for each of the
content
> model tokens I'm retaining from the base content model, since they
otherwise
> occur *after* the shell-defined content model override entity is
declared.
> 
> I don't remember any discussion of this in the past, but I also
haven't been
> necessarily paying close attention.
> 
> Is there any reason not to make this change?