Re: [docbook-tc] Email ballot: 440667 Affiliation lacks CorpName

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> / Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> was heard to say:
> | But I have a some questions about the additional attributes:
> |
> |     classname   (corporation|nonprofit|informal|other)  #IMPLIED
> |     otherclass  CDATA                #IMPLIED
> |
> | 1. Why "classname" and not just "class"?
> 
> Oops. That's just a typo.

OK. Hm, should the proposal be amended to correct the typo?

> | 2. What's "otherclass" for?
> 
> If you want to identify a class of organization without relying on role.
> (e.g. class="other" otherclass="consortium" :-)

OK. That's a pretty handy little semantic-extension mechanism. Seems
like something we could maybe use with some other elements as well.

> | 3. Would it be worthwhile to add "consortium" to the enumerated list
> |    of values for classname? (for marking up consortium names like
> |    OASIS and W3C/World Wide Web Consortium)
> 
> Perhaps, but I don't think I can legitimately make that change in the
> middle of a ballot.

OK. Sorry to complicate things -- for now, I'll just send a YEA for
the whole proposal as is.

But I'd then like to maybe do a separate proposal to add "consortium"
as an enumerated value, if possible. (Or if the current proposal is
amended to fix the "classname" typo, maybe add the "consortium" change
to the amended proposal as well?)

  --Mike