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Subject: Re: [dita] Where to locate the conformance topic


FYI,

   The Conformance Section is required to be the last numbered section  
in the specification.

Regards,

Mary

On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:

> 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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