RE: [dita] How much flexibility do specializers have to make exceptions tobehaviors that are outlined in the DITA standard?

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RE: [dita] How much flexibility do specializers have to make exceptions tobehaviors that are outlined in the DITA standard?
"Ogden, Jeff" <> wrote
on 10/01/2008 10:18:01 AM:

> This is a note that Don Day asked me to send out during yesterday's
DITA

> TC call.

> 

> About a week ago I restarted the discussion about what the DITA Standard

> REQUIRES, strongly RECOMMENDS, and what is OPTIONAL.  So far
the

> restarted discussion has been between just me, Michael, and Eliot.
 What

> I'd like to find out from others on the TC is if these issues are

> important enough to continue to spend time on them or not?

> 

> So please let me know by sending a short reply either to me or to
the

> DITA TC list.  I'll summarize the responses before next Tuesday's
DITA

> TC call.

I care enough that implementations that want to add
extended functionality are not actively prevented from doing so.  Hence
my remarks about un-enumerating @collection-type.

I don't mind if such implementations are labelled
with a lesser conformance status.  I don't mind if the DITA standard
insists that such implementations use prefixes like "x-" a la
other standards.

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Deborah Pickett

Information Architect, Moldflow Pty Ltd, Melbourne