RE: [dita] Suggested TC position WRT XSD usage from DITA 1.3 onward -- Proposed wording

["Tom Magliery" <tom.magliery@justsystems.com>]

What's common practice elsewhere?

As a reader of specs, my intuition would be to consider externally
linked content as non-normative w.r.t. the spec I'm reading, unless the
spec explicitly stated otherwise.

mag




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Subject: Re: [dita] Suggested TC position WRT XSD usage from DITA 1.3
onward -- Proposed wording

Interesting point. We link to non-normative material currently in the 
spec; see 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/metadata-elements.
html#metadata-elements 
where we link to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
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On 8/5/2014 1:40 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
> Hi Fredrik,
>
> I agree with the link. The only question I have is procedural. Does
the link need to be labeled as non-normative, or is that assumed for
links?
>
> Best regards,
> Dick
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> On Aug 5, 2014, at 6:08 AM, Fredrik Geers <fgeers@sdl.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, looks good. This does not sound too negative when it comes to
using
>> XSD with DITA, which is good for XML editors that work with XSD only,
like
>> ours.
>> Also, I would indeed be in favor of including the link to the
RNG-to-XSD
>> generator, since I do not think everyone reading the spec knows where
to
>> find that.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Fredrik Geers | Product Owner SDL LiveContent Create/SDL Xopus | SDL
|
>> (t) +31 (0)20 201 0500 | (e) fgeers@sdl.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/08/14 19:17, "Richard Hamilton" <hamilton@xmlpress.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Following up on an action from a couple of weeks ago, Don Day and I
have
>>> put together proposed wording for this position statement.
>>>
>>> Here is our draft:
>>> ========
>>> If you want to create a specialization or constraint using the DITA
XSD
>>> schema, you need to use the XSD redefine facility. However, this
facility
>>> does not allow sequence groups to be directly constrained. Thus, to
>>> support specialization and constraints, it may be necessary to
refactor
>>> content models into named groups that can be redefined. In order to
keep
>>> the XSD, RELAX NG, and DTD implementations as consistent as
possible, the
>>> DITA Technical Committee only refactored those content models that
were
>>> required for OASIS-provided schemas. These were the strict task body
and
>>> machinery industry task model. The other DITA content models
distributed
>>> by OASIS have not been refactored.
>>>
>>> You MAY modify the OASIS-provided XSD module to refactor the content
>>> model if required by your constraint. You can either modify the
>>> OASIS-provided XSD module or extend the RELAX NG-to-XSD generation
>>> process [link?] to add your special case. You SHOULD notify the DITA
>>> Technical Committee of your constraint requirement so the TC can
consider
>>> adding the required refactoring to the OASIS-provided XSDs.
>>> =========
>>>
>>> Please look this over for technical accuracy and clarity.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dick Hamilton
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>>> XML Press
>>> XML for Technical Communicators
>>> http://xmlpress.net
>>> hamilton@xmlpress.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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