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Re: [dita] Negative values

From: Michael Priestley
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:20:00 -0000

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Subject: Re: [dita] Negative values




From: Michael Priestley <[email protected]>
To: "Paul Prescod" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:23:31 -0400




What scope attribute?

Michael Priestley

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[dita] Negative values









This document describes negative values:


http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17329/IssueNumber20.ht

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It isn't explicit about the semantics of them. For example, it implies

that negative and positive values can be combined in a single attribute

(otherwise why say that the NOT operator only applies to a single

value). But I would have thought that a negation of value A implies

value B by definition. Therefore explicitly stating value B is

redundant.


audience="NOT paul"


Means everybody but paul. Therefore saying "everybody but paul plus

janice" is redundant. In programming language terms:


If Audience!=paul OR audience=janice


Although I am a fan of the goals of this feature, I am not convinced

that we can work out the details in the time we have. Plus I think that

it is a bit of scope creep beyond what the TC agreed to. The same goes

for the scope attribute.


 Paul Prescod










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