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RE: [dita] When does DITA Document Type Not Meet Requirements?

From: Seraphim Larsen
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:17:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [dita] When does DITA Document Type Not Meet Requirements?

From: "Larsen, Seraphim L" <[email protected]>
To: "DITA TC list " <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:16:21 -0700

Much of this discussion is over my head, so perhaps my comment here
won't make sense.  But what is preventing you from specializing the base
DITA topics into "indexable" topics that include the "see" and "see
also" tags that you need?  And then building whatever other topics you
need, on top of that?  Then you'd still be in conformance with DITA. 

By the way, I think this is an important discussion because it gets at
the core of what the TC is trying to accomplish and how DITA will
actually be received and used.  I don't think we need to slow down the
1.0 release for this, but it's still a very worthwhile discussion.


Seraphim 
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