Re: [dita] The trademarking tool

Hello,

Just trying to understand which attribute you want to generalize.
For instance,  you have a task was generalized to a topic and you want to
go back to a task.

Is this what you are trying to do or am I confused? :-)


Kind regards,
Eric
Eric A. Sirois
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DB2 Universal Database - DBA XML Tools Development
IBM Canada Ltd. - Toronto Software Lab
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If writing the XSLT 1.0 code for parsing generalized CDATA attributes is a
problem, I would be also be glad to help.

--Dana

Paul Prescod wrote:
      Questions about respecialization:
         1. Why wouldn?t we write the trademarking tool in
            specialization-aware XSLT or Python or Java?
         2. If the trademarking tool validates the input and output against
            the generalized DTD/schema, isn?t there a danger that the
            content does not validate against the specialized one anymore?

      When I thought through these issues in the architectural forms
      context I came to the conclusion that all document modifications
      should be done in the most specialized view. Working with generalized
      content is only ?safe? for read-only applications.

      That said, I?m not a purist. If someone wants to do something unsafe
      in their environment then that?s their call. But by the same token,
      if Dana wants to unsafely add specialization-lossy attributes to his
      doctype then I don?t think that there is any reason to stop him.

      I think that it is inevitable that people WILL add attributes
      (including CDATA and URL attributes) because no DITA authoring tool
      or validator will complain if they do so. CMS vendors have already
      told me that the intend to add attributes for tracking object IDs
      (which may be paths or URLs). If respecialization is important then
      we need to make it work with this common use case. If it isn?t
      important then it shouldn?t stand in the way of the use case.

      Would it help if I wrote the XSLT 1.0 code to parse generalized
      attributes?

       Paul Prescod