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Subject: RE: [dita] problem with packaging of glossaries
You write: > Concept, task and reference are not "universal". There are many uses of DITA for which they > are completely irrelevant. Some examples, please? > That particular breakdown is specific to a particular technical communication practice > and philosophy and even that philosophy is not universal among technical communicators. I would agree that the breakdown emerged from a particular practice and philosophy, but that does not automatically disqualify it from broad applicability. Speaking from own experience authoring hundreds of documents of many different types, including mainstream business document types, I have yet to find one that could not be modelled semantically, at high level, as one or more concept, task, or reference topics. Others on the BusDocs SC disagree with me; their experience indicates that additional, more specific, topic types would be more suitable. But I believe I can say we have consensus on the broad applicability of the concept, task, and reference topic types, albeit in simpler, less constrictive versions than the ones we currently have in DITA 1.2. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: ekimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:07 AM To: rockley@rockley.com; 'Michael Priestley'; 'JoAnn Hackos' Cc: 'Bruce Nevin (bnevin)'; dita; 'Michael Boses' Subject: Re: [dita] problem with packaging of glossaries On 8/21/09 9:37 AM, "Ann Rockley" <rockley@rockley.com> wrote: > The concept, task, and reference are universal content structures but > they are a little more specialized to Tech Docs at this time. Concept, task and reference are not "universal". There are many uses of DITA for which they are completely irrelevant. That particular breakdown is specific to a particular technical communication practice and philosophy and even that philosophy is not universal among technical communicators. Cheers, E. ---- Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. email: ekimber@reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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