Hi there,
I think that the Machine industry subcommittee is putting together a
proposal to address the ANSI and ISO notice standards that are not in
the DITA spec.
Amber
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Hudson [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 4:46 PM
To: W. Eliot Kimber
Cc:
Subject: Re: [dita] Should "warning" be in note type list?
I agree. I think it should be added as well. It is an important
distinction for many types of documents.
Best regards,
--Scott
W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I noticed that the "type" attribute of note does not contain "warning"
> although it does contain "caution" and "danger".
>
> Since note/caution/warning is a pretty standard hierarchy of
admonition
> types [I discovered this because a client's documents have warnings
that
> are labled "Warning" and I didn't find the word "warning" in the dita
> reference] I would think that "warning" should be in the list.
>
> Note that at least in my experience (for example, with aircraft
> maintenance), that there is a distinction between "warning" and
"danger"
> that is, if I'm remembering correctly, the difference between damage
to
> equipment (warning) and injury to people (danger).
>
> However, if the intent is that one of the other keywords is a synonym
> for "warning" I think it would be good to mention this in the spec.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
