RE: [dita] Contains and Contained by in reference

["Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

Joann,

First off, thanks for your separate explanation of the contains and
contained by sections.

Second, regarding a tutorial, I think that would be very helpful. What
would be especially helpful would be information in that tutorial (or in
a separate tutorial) about how DITA uses the DTD mechanism, both in the
standard and for specialization. If you're used to more traditional uses
of DTDs, DITA can trip you up.

For example, even though I understand how a DTD works, and at a higher
level how the DITA DTDs work, the unique way that DITA uses DTDs tripped
me up when I was looking at the Contains and Contained by tables. I had
in my head the notion that a DTD can't define different content models
for the same element, and while this is true, there's no requirement
that a standard can't define different content models for the same
element in different DTDs, which is exactly what DITA does. Once I
understood that, the tables made sense.

Best Regards,
Dick Hamilton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joann Hackos [mailto:joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:48 PM
> To: Dick Hamilton; DITA TC
> Subject: Re: [dita] Contains and Contained by in reference
> 
> 
> By the way, we've talked about developing a tutorial in the 
> Adoption TC
> about how to read a DTD.
> 
> JoAnn
> 
> 
> On 2/9/10 2:33 PM, "Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com> wrote:
> 
> > Following up on the discussion in the meeting today about 
> the contains
> > and contained by sections in the language reference, I 
> spent some time
> > looking at some of those sections.
> > 
> > That left me confused. Can someone explain how these tables work, or
> > point to an explanation?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Richard Hamilton
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