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Re: [dita] Follow-up questions on specialization

From: Michael Priestley
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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:36:00 -0000

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Subject: Re: [dita] Follow-up questions on specialization




From: Michael Priestley <[email protected]>
To: "Paul Prescod" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:35:58 -0500




1) since keyword doesn't currently allow
nesting of markup, and uicontrol has optional child elements, uicontrol
had to be specialized from ph rather than keyword. One of the suggestions
for DITA 1.1 is to allow keywords to nest, which would remove the reason
for this particular ancestry and potentially allow us to respecialize uicontrol
from keyword.

2) not currently documented outside
the DTD/schema. Could potentially be added to the language spec, which
started as a straightforward user's reference but is now being used for
a different audience (ie implementers rather than users). 


Michael Priestley

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Dept PRG IBM Canada  phone: 416-915-8262

Toronto Information Development







"Paul Prescod"
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03/07/2005 09:23 PM




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[dita] Follow-up questions
on specialization









1. Can anyone describe why "uicontrol" is
different


<!ATTLIST shortcut    %global-atts;  class CDATA "+
topic/keyword

ui-d/shortcut ">

<!ATTLIST uicontrol   %global-atts;  class CDATA "+ topic/ph

ui-d/uicontrol "    >

<!ATTLIST wintitle    %global-atts;  class CDATA "+
topic/keyword

ui-d/wintitle ">


2. In general, is the specialization structure (both details and

rationale) documented anywhere except in the actual DTD? For example,

how would I find out from the spec that task/postreq is a kind of

topic/section?


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