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Subject: Re: [dita] "name" attribute on audience element


I agree with Robert’s suggestion.

Cheers,

E.
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On 11/19/13, 3:24 PM, "Robert D Anderson" <robander@us.ibm.com> wrote:

>
>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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