Sounds like a plan! Should we try through
email, or have some side meetings? Who else is interested?
For the HDITA mappings, I've got a couple
of concerns with an element approach:
- how top-heavy the declarations
will make the file (eg if we have five lines of _javascript_ per new element,
and a specialization with twenty new elements in it, that's 100 lines of
freight - potentially enough to double the size of a small topic)
- whether we need to care about
their specialization architecture, which seems to be mostly extension rather
than restriction, and would also mean that we don't get new element names
- can we get decent fallback behavior
without stylesheets? or will this approach have a hard dependency on stylesheet
instructions for each new element?
That said, I see the attraction of an
element-based approach, and if we can make it work and it has value we
can demonstrate then I think it looks cooler and bridges to XDITA more
clearly.
For MDITA, I think we just need to take
a hard look at what the dependencies are for each extension we propose.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley
From:
Carlos Evia <>
To:
Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
Cc:
Date:
05/26/2016 09:31 AM
Subject:
Re: [dita-lightweight-dita]
Specialization model - elements and attributes
Sent by:
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I feel like a bad student because I missed our last meeting
and will miss the next one (Memorial Day in the US).
Should we/I work on the new mappings of HDITA and MarkDITA?
Carlos
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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.
Director of Professional and
Technical Writing
Associate Professor of Technical
Communication
Department of English
Center for Human-Computer Interaction
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112
(540)200-8201
On May 25, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Michael Priestley <>
wrote:
I wanted to draw attention to my slides
from the Lightweight DITA pre/overview at CMS/DITA North America (updated
with slides borrowed from my joint presentation with Carlos Evia and Jenifer
Schlotfeldt).
It's got what I believe to be an up-to-date view of the proposed template
specialization model, with a simple example
http://www.slideshare.net/mpriestley/lightweight-dita-a-preoverview
The technical overview (as opposed to business case/scenarios) starts on
slide 22.
The template specialization overview is on slides 30-35.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley
