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Re: [dita] Stage One Proposal: Change the specialization base of imagemap

From: Kristen Eberlein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:24:00 -0000

So we have two possibilities here: Add <imagemap> and its child elements to base -- also <sort-as> Change the specialization base for <imagemap> and area to <div> Which makes most sense? Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) On 7/9/2019 3:14 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote: [I sent this to Zoe yesterday but had intended to send to the main list] ï<div> should be the best choice but would need to think it through: <imagemap> allows <image> and <area> <area> is currently a specialization of <figgroup>. <figgroup> is essentially the semantic equivalent to <div> so it would make sense to also make <area> a specialization of <div>. <div> allows all the elements from which the subelements of <area> are specialized, so that works. One way to evaluate a specialization design is to generalize it back to the base types and verify that the result is still valid. If it is, then the specialization meets that requirement. So using <div> for <imagemap> and <area> definitely passes that test. Then the other question is whether or not the specialization is semantically consistent with the base, which is a more subjective question. But in this case, <div> has no semantic beyond container so hard not to be semantically consistent with it. Ditto for <area> specialized from <div>. Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com ïOn 7/8/19, 8:30 PM, Zoe Lawson <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Originally, <imagemap> was a specialization of <fig>. This means you cannot use an <imagemap> directly inside of a <fig>, which makes it complicated to add a title to your image. You can work around this by using a <div> inside of the <fig>, but that seems like an extra layer of complexity. If we change the specialization base of <imagemap> from <fig> to something slightly more generic such as <div>, that may simplify the adding of a title (or other content) around an <imagemap> in a <fig>. I would like some technical assistance determining which element makes the most sense to specialize from. Thanks, ZoÃ Lawson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php