Re: [dita] Need Clarification on Implications of Different List MarkupPatterns

Hi, Gershon:

Would it make sense for core DITA 1.2 to include a simplifying constraint module (for instance, limiting nesting for some blocks) and to provide some parallel shells (conceptSimple, taskSimple, etc) that apply those constraints?

That might meet the concern you identify below and illustrate constraints.

Hoping that's interesting,

Erik Hennum



Gershon L Joseph <> wrote on 02/12/2008 07:37:17 AM:

> I still feel that the DITA spec should provide a loose set of DTDs 

> for users to specialize from, but that it should also provide a 

> tight set of DTDs that authors can use out of the box. IMO the 

> current base topic DTDs are too loose to be useful. The sad fact is 

> we see tons of users applying bad markup -- effectively marking up 

> their DITA XML content the way they applied styles in Word or FrameMaker.