While your recommendation makes sense, I’m not sure that I understand the logic. I thought that the idea behind <foreign> is to allow non-DITA vocabulary that, while not recognized by the DITA specification, to get passed to the output stream to be handled by the output processor eliminating the need for specialization for a small volume of snippets of XML content.
Am I misunderstanding the purpose?
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Hi Julio,
Thanks for the comment. In this case, I think it's better to leave the examples as is. The text in question is:
"The <foreign> element enables authors to include media within topic content, for example, SVG graphics, MathML equations, and so on."
The <foreign> element is what enables those domains to include SVG and MathML with DITA 1.3. I think it's better for this section to give an example of <foreign> that is needed, already exists, and can be used by anybody with 1.3, rather than picking some other vocabulary that could only be used after creating a new specialization.
Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (http://www.dita-ot.org/)
"Julio Vazquez" ---09/23/2015 11:30:12---In section 2.2.1.7, the description of multimedia uses SVG and MathML as examples of media which the
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Subject: [dita-comment] Description of Multimedia
In section 2.2.1.7, the description of multimedia uses SVG and MathML as examples of media which the <foreign> element includes. As DITA 1.3 includes these domains, it would be better to find other examples for this subsection.
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