RE: [dita] Normative language specification

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

And if it does happen it calls for an errata release as soon as the TC
learns of the problem and just as quickly as we can produce one.

What implementers should do would depend on the mature of the problem
and their schedule.  They might wait for a fix from the TC, they might
apply their own ad hoc fix, they might ignore the issue if it doesn't
cause serious problems.

Of course we should work hard to avoid such conflicts in the first
place.

    -Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Nevin (bnevin) [mailto:bnevin@cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:04 PM
> To: Grosso, Paul; dita
> Subject: RE: [dita] Normative language specification
> 
> Yes, that's the point, and yes, it's a corner case unlikely to occur.
> Just an observation.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:56 PM
> > To: dita
> > Subject: RE: [dita] Normative language specification
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 2010 January 13 16:45
> > > To: Bruce Nevin (bnevin); Ogden, Jeff; dita
> > > Subject: Re: [dita] Normative language specification
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Again, if there is a out and out conflict between what the
> > prose says
> > > and what the DTDs say, then there is a bug in one or the other,
but
> > > until the bug is fixed, the prosed is presumed to be correct. For
> > > example, if
> > the
> > > prose says "you can have zero or more foos" and the DTD requires
at
> > > least one foo, until the prose is corrected (assuming it's wrong
in
> > > this example), a document with zero foos is, by definition, a
> > > conforming document for this particular rule.
> >
> > Right, but is an application that uses the DTD and gives a
> > validity error for the document with zero foos a conforming
> > DITA application?
> >
> > Per your words, it is not.
> >
> > So what should the implementor who is producing an
> > out-of-the-box DITA application supposed to include in its
> > distribution?  The broken DTD that will complain about the
> > valid document or a privately corrected version of the DTD
> > that isn't what OASIS is distributing?
> >
> > I'm not that worried about the issue, but that, I think, is
> > Bruce's point.
> >
> > paul
> >
> >
> >
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