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Proposal: Update foreign topic to include processing info forgeneralization/specialization use case

From: Eric Sirois
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:32:00 -0000

The foreign content proposal (#35) for incorporating foreign content in DITA did not have a use case that covered what would happen when an DITA document contain foreign content are generalized the content is not longer valid, when using DTDs for validation, because the base DTD does not include the foreign vocabularies. I propose that we hide the foreign content via a processing instruction in the generalized document. It gets us past the validator issue. The content could then be re-instated during the specialization process. Hiding in a comment was discussed, but there is no guarantee that tools keep comments in the documents. Also, it makes reinstating the foreign content during specialization much more difficult. In the case where