Re: [dita] Question about domains attribute

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>]

Starting with DITA 1.2 we strongly urged @domains to list all structural
types as well as domains, so the minimum @domains value should be "(topic
topic)" or "(map map)" in the case where you have no domains integrated.

Cheers,

E.
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com




On 10/3/14, 2:21 PM, "Robert D Anderson" <robander@us.ibm.com> wrote:

>The DITA spec is pretty clear that structural specializations need to
>declare @domains on the root element (specialization of map or topic),
>and that this attribute must describe the domains used in a given
>document type shell. The spec says of this attribute: "...the @domains
>attribute, whose value is a sequence of parenthesized module ancestry
>specifications. "
>http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/domainsatt.html
>
>The question is - what about if I have a document type shell with no
>domains? I've got a very simple map specialization - mostly a title,
>metadata, and very limited references to other maps. There is no need for
>any domains. I've declared the attribute for my root element, but in my
>DTD file the attribute is set to the empty string (""). This would not
>appear to comply with the language above, because the empty string is not
>a sequence of parenthesized modules. Is it correct to set this to the
>empty string? I've got a tool that reports an error here because @domains
>does not match the current definition. I can get around the error by
>setting a value like "none" or "(none)" but those clearly do not comply
>either.
>
>So - what is the correct value for @domains in a document type shell that
>does not use any domains?
>
>Robert D Anderson
>IBM Authoring Tools Development
>Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/)