Re: [dita] Chair's quote--pls review

[Joann Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

I would correct the punctuation on this statement and one word.
"and, with the hazard statement and machinery task specializations, DITA has
become germane for machinery documentation."


On 12/2/10 12:17 PM, "Jang F.M. Graat" <jang@jang.nl> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am not too happy about the last section "and the new Hazard
> specialization supports labeling for product safety applications."
> This is way too weak to do justice to the importance of the machinery-
> related additions, which also includes the machinery task. As the co-
> chair of the Machinery Industry SC, I think the impact of our work in
> the past years should be shown for what it is worth.
> 
> So I would like to see that last part rephrased as: "and with the
> hazard statement and machinery task specializations DITA has become
> applicable for machinery documentation."
> 
> Kind regards from Amsterdam
> 
> Jang
> 
> 
> On 2 dec 2010, at 16:45, Don Day (LbW) wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the discussion thus far. Unless anyone sees crucial
>> issues with Bruce's rewrite, it comes closest to the spirit of what
>> the TC commissioned on Tuesday for my message, and seems to account
>> for the wording concerns pointed out by Thilo and others. Keeping
>> Bruce's sense, I've updated slightly for my voice and a bit more
>> parallel wording. Seeing the rewrites reminds me to ask whether we
>> are confident about  "impliable warrantees" in how the benefits are
>> stated. If I hear no violent outcry, I'll submit this as is to Carol
>> in the morning.
>> --
>> Don
>> 
>> Don Day, Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee,
>> summarized the Committee's goals for DITA 1.2:
>> "This new version incorporates community
>> suggestions that will help content owners to create
>> and deliver more kinds of information in more ways
>> than ever with DITA. The constraints mechanism can be
>> used to remove unneeded tags from the authoring
>> environment, depending on the type of document.
>> Managing and reusing content is more efficient with
>> indirect "keyref" addressing using user-defined keys,
>> and with extensions to conref, such as pushing updates
>> into already published content. Moreover, the new
>> Learning and Training specialization provides support
>> for educational applications, and the new Hazard
>> specialization supports labeling for product safety
>> applications.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/2/2010 8:58 AM, Bruce Nevin (bnevin) wrote:
>>> Don Day, Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee,
>>> commented on new features in DITA 1.2, which "greatly
>>> expand opportunities for using DITA as a content
>>> standard. This new version incorporates community
>>> suggestions that will help content owners to create
>>> and deliver more kinds of information in more ways
>>> than ever with DITA. The constraints mechanism can be
>>> used to remove unneeded tags from the authoring
>>> environment, depending on the type of document.
>>> Managing and reusing content is more efficient with
>>> indirect "keyref" addressing using user-defined keys,
>>> and with extensions to conref, such as pushing updates
>>> into already published content. DITA 1.2 provides
>>> support for educational applications through the new
>>> Learning and Training specialization, and the new Hazard
>>> specialization supports labeling for product safety
>>> applications.
>> 
>> 
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