Re: [dita] Radu's question and analysis of subjectScheme content in the

I've read through both the Language Reference and ArchSpec topics carefully (and found a few glitches, which I've sent to the list).

I think we clearly and consistently make the following points:

For bound enumerations, the category value is NOT included in the list of permitted values; it just serves as the reference to the children values. We repeatedly explicitly state this in examples.
Key references to controlled values are resolved to key definitions "using the same precedence rules as apply to any other key." http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/os/part1-base/archSpec/base/subjectSchema.html#subjectSchema

Given Radu's example:

!DOCTYPE subjectScheme PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Subject Scheme Map//EN" "subjectScheme.dtd">
<subjectScheme>
    <subjectdef keys="floatLeft">
        <subjectdef keys="left"/>
    </subjectdef>
    <subjectdef keys="outputclassFig">
        <subjectdef keys="none"/>
        <subjectdef keyref="floatLeft"/>
    </subjectdef>
    <enumerationdef>
        <attributedef name="outputclass"/>
        <subjectdef keyref="outputclassFig"/>
    </enumerationdef>
</subjectScheme>

I think processors need to resolve the key reference to "floatLeft" in place and so interpret the bound set of controlled values as follows:

Note that the category value "outputclassFig" is not a permitted values for @outputclass.

Should we add this as an example to the DITA 1.3 errata?

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Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

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