complexity

What is the basis of 
the perception of complexity? 

  

  
  From: ian balanza-davis 
  [mailto:] 
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 
  10:34 AM
To: Goolsby, Chris; ; 
  
Subject: Re: [dita-help] Help 
  Features in DITA 1.3

  

  

  
Greetings all

I would concur that the context hooks should be 
  built into the core content model, but I think we would need to be mindful of 
  the scope of the hooks to ensure some form of uniqueness in the final output. 
  

I am not so sure about the window definitions. To me these feel more 
  like a processing requirement, and I am not sure that it is good practice to 
  place format-specific information in the source. (Pretending "print" does not 
  exist on topicrefs...)

I agree that the standard is looking complex, 
  and I suspect can only get more so. 

As an aside, I work with SMEs 
  rather than (classically-defined) authors who found version 1.1 complex. You 
  can imagine how they will react to 1.2

Ian

  

  

  
  From: "Goolsby, Chris" 
  <>
To: 
  ; 
Sent: Mon, 6 December, 2010 
  14:46:47
Subject: RE: 
  [dita-help] Help Features in DITA 1.3

Hi all.

I agree. 
  The base topic types work fine for UA. We just need to tweak a
few things 
  to add some hooks for UA delivery. I agree with the community
that DITA is 
  getting a little complex.

Regards.

Chris 
  Goolsby
PTC

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Self 
  [mailto:] 
Sent: 
  Monday, December 06, 2010 1:33 AM
To: 
Subject: 
  [dita-help] Help Features in DITA 1.3

Greetings colleagues

Now 
  that 1.2 has been released, we have to start thinking about 1.3. You
will 
  probably recall that the Help Subcommittee was established to 
  make
recommendations for 1.3; it wasn't anticipated that 1.3 would be so 
  far
away.

So far, we have proposals for spec changes to better 
  handle context
hooks,
and window definitions. 

We have discussed 
  in the past the possibility of a specialisation for
integrated or embedded 
  user assistance content.

There has been some negative feedback from the 
  community about the
perceived
complexity of 1.2, with new information 
  types, constrained versions of
some
types, and a (perceived) mushrooming 
  in the number of elements. 

My feeling is that the context hook and 
  window definitions should be
built
into the base content model. My 
  feeling is that we should not have a
specialised information type for UA, 
  mainly because I don't think the
community is demanding such a 
  thing.

What do you all think? 

Tony 
  Self

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