Where to locate the conformance topic

[Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein@pobox.com>]

Elliot, sounds as if we need to discuss this. Off the topic of my head, 
here's what I would suggest:

Overview [Unique for each of the three packages/document variations]
Conformance statement
Architectural Specification
Language Reference

This keeps "Introduction to DITA" as a component of the architectural 
specification.

Kris

ekimber wrote:
> I have made a pass over the conformance statement and updated the file in
> SVN. Need to work out where it should go in the overall structure--have
> provided a proposal to Kristen Eberlein. My current thinking is that it
> should follow the Introduction to DITA section, where that section and the
> Conformance sections are then peers to the Arch Spec and Lang Ref, e.g.:
>
> - About the DITA 1.2 Spec
> - Introduction to DITA
> - Conformance
> - Architectural Specification
>   - DITA Markup
>   - DITA Processing
>   - Specialization
>   - Customization
> - Language Reference
>
> I reviewed the OASIS document on writing conformance specs. I'm not
> completely happy with our current conformance spec in terms of its
> organization but I think it's good enough for 1.2.
>
> We still need to make as much of a pass as we can over the lang ref to add
> the appropriate conformance level for specific behaviors described therein.
> This is no small undertaking, I realize, but it needs to be done if the
> conformance clause is to have much meaning.
>
> At a minimum, if people can comment on that aspect of the language spec as
> they are reviewing it we can try to implement the non-controversial comments
> during the upcoming review period. Even creating a list of those topics that
> don't need to be examined would help: there are 534 topics in the langref at
> present. If we can narrow that down to say 50 that require updated
> conformance language, that would make the task tractable (that's only 8
> hours at 10 minutes a topic :-).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>
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