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Subject: Re: [dita] Use of %tbl.table.name in tblDecl.mod


I can easily maintain the entity--as long as we don't reference it then
everything is good with the generated DTDs.

Cheers,

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




On 10/20/14, 11:04 AM, "Robert D Anderson" <robander@us.ibm.com> wrote:

>I do think this is one of the least useful entities in DITA 1.2 (actually
>I think all 3 from tblDecl.mod are of questionable value in DITA).
>
>I'm generally opposed to removing even these three entities, just because
>- as silly as it would be - it's possible that somebody could have
>referenced them in their module. That said, they're probably the 3 I'm
>also willing to compromise on.
>
>I do think that even if we keep the %tbl.table.name entity around for
>backwards compatibility, we should not to use it when declaring the
>element name. While there is a chance somebody could have found and used
>this entity somewhere, changing it to give rename the actual <table>
>element is outside the bounds of anything we need to support.
>
>Robert D Anderson
>IBM Authoring Tools Development
>Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/)
>
>Eliot Kimber ---10/20/2014 10:55:37---This is one of the issues Robert
>brought up. I can special case the generation of this one element,
>
>From:	Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>
>To:	dita <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Date:	10/20/2014 10:55
>Subject:	[dita] Use of %tbl.table.name in tblDecl.mod
>Sent by:	<dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
>
>________________________________________
>
>
>
>This is one of the issues Robert brought up. I can special case the
>generation of this one element, but I'm wondering if I should.
>
>It would not be valid per the DITA spec to change the table tag name: that
>would constitute a disallowed change. The only way to have a table that is
>a CALS table but whose tagname is not "table" would be via specialization.
>
>So the %tbl.table.name parameter entity can only ever have the value
>"table", which makes it pointless. It also means that nobody could have
>ever changed it and had a valid DITA document.
>
>Also, historically, support for specializations of CALS tables has been
>weak or non-existent.
>
>So it seems highly unlikely that anyone has actually ever set the
>%tbl.table.name to anything other than "table".
>
>In addition, it is not possible in either RNG or XSD to directly
>parameterize the name of an element type: you would have to use XML
>entities in the RNG or XSD file, and nobody would ever do that (because it
>wouldn't be at all reliably supported by tools).
>
>The declaration of <table> is the only place that a parameter entity is
>used for an element type name.
>
>I recommend that we remove it's use for DITA 1.3.
>
>Cheers,
>
>E.
>
>—————
>Eliot Kimber, Owner
>Contrext, LLC
>http://contrext.com
>
>
>
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