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Filtering logic for

From: Joel Finkle <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:50:00 -0000

I'm coming into this in the middle, so please feel free to shout me down if I'm getting off topic. I agree strongly with JoAnn's statement that controlled lists are critical. Many such controlled lists will be industry-wide, and can be specializations. Others will be company-specific: lists of products, lists of facilities, authorized signers, etc. Making those kinds of lists extensions in the DITA types seems exhausting. I would prefer to see something in the type definitions that says, "This object expects authors to enter one item selected from a set of things of the class FOO." (or zero or one, or one to n or zero to n...) Then, the authoring software could be *configured* such that there is a list of FOOs that can be selected where needed. Best of both worlds? ---- Joel Finkle Director, Regulatory Informatics Image Solutions, Inc. 100 South Jefferson Road Whippany, NJ 07981 T: 847.989.6028 [email protected]