RE: [dita] Under-specification for @refcol?

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

Do we say that it isn't used?  Not used by whom?  How do we know?

Do we say that its use is not defined or is implementation specific?

Do we say, as Eliot suggested, that it is "reserved for future use"?

Do we say that the attribute is obsolete and its use is deprecated?

One or the other of the last two choices seem better to me.

   -Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gershon Joseph (gerjosep) [mailto:gerjosep@cisco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:39 AM
> To: Kristen James Eberlein; Don Day
> Cc: DITA TC list
> Subject: RE: [dita] Under-specification for @refcol?
> 
> I think we should...
> Gershon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kristen James Eberlein [mailto:keberlein@pobox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 5:21 PM
> To: Don Day
> Cc: DITA TC list
> Subject: Re: [dita] Under-specification for @refcol?
> 
> Actually, I responded to Toshihiko Makita's observation that the
> "refcol
> attribute description is very unclear for me. And there seems no
> implementation that use this attribute in DITA-OT."
> 
> I vaguely remembered that the internal IBM documentation stated that
> this attribute was not currently in use, and posted that as a response
> to the list.
> 
> It'd be easy to state as much in the 1.2 documentation ...
> 
> Kris
> 
> Don Day wrote:
> > In dita-users list this week
> > (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/15537),
> Kristen
> 
> > made the observation that the DITA 1.1 specification for
> simpletable's
> 
> > @refcol attribute gives very little insight into how it should be
> > implemented. It appears that the original intent at the time might
> > have anticipated the "associative linking" thoughts that have since
> > matured as the keyref processing specification. Can anyone recall
> > whether we've had previous discussion for this attribute that needs
> to
> 
> > be reviewed and added into the edits for DITA 1.2?
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Don Day
> > Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> > Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions
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