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Subject: "name" attribute on audience element


According to the specification, the name attribute is required on the
<audience> element:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/audience.html

I know that the DTD we ship does not require it - actually, it didn't in
DITA 1.1 or even DITA 1.0. I noticed this bug while doing some prototypes
of new attribute displays in the specification.

Technically - the specification is canonical, thus the DTD is in error on
this point and has been since 1.0. However, I suggest that we just relax
this in the 1.3 specification and remove any mention of it being required.
This change would be backwards compatible (easy to go from required to
non-required), and as a bonus, we wouldn't break any current users by
"fixing" the DTD / XSD. Also, I feel sure that if we had been shipping it
as required in the DTD, somebody would have asked us to relax that by now.

Any objections?

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/)



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