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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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