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RE: [dita] Specialization of Attributes

From: Michael Priestley
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:49:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [dita] Specialization of Attributes




From: Michael Priestley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:52:14 -0400




Use cases for generalization of content
(including attributes) with preservation of functionality and DTDs (these
are made up, and meant to be illustrative not authoritative):

XML DB use case:
- let's say our content is getting served
up by a company-wide CMS that understands DTD/schema but not specialization
- needs each DTD/schema registered for
the sake of defining tables, breaking out elements for fast search/lookup/relationships,
etc.
- if we can generalize content to a
known DTD, can serve up content without reworking table structure every
time
- but we still want the specialized
behavior at display time
- so checkin/checkout would probably
perform generalization/respecialization, to enforce specialized rules at
editing time

translation case:
- given a translation tool that is configured
per DTD/schema
- generalize to avoid added cost per
new specialization
- translators check content out of translation
system, working with editor of their choice (may be DTD aware)
- translators run previews using specialized
transforms to ensure output is acceptable in new language 
- batch-mode validation runs at night,
checking out all content and respecializing to ensure changes are specialization-valid

The second case does run a risk of translators
breaking specialized structural rules, but the risk can be mitigated by
the batch validation step - not as good as in-editor validation, but better
than nothing.

Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead

[email protected]

http://dita.xml.org/blog/25






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RE: [dita] Specialization of Attributes
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