Impact assessment for conditional processing feature (issue 20)

Feature description:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18324/IssueNumber20.html

Architectural spec impact

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DITA markup section:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_common.html
(note that attributes could be different between maps and topics based
on domain usage)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_mapinher.html
(note new attributes and containment inheritance rules)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/metadataAttr.html
(note new props attribute and specialization capability)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/miscAttr.html
(add description of base attribute and specialization capability)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/condproc.html
(update conditional processing description, add subtopics for ditaval format)

Specialization section:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/specialize.html
(update descrip of specialization to note attribute specialization)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/infodom.html
(update to include attribute specialization)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/speclimits.html
(update limits to qualify suggestions relative to new attributes)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/speccont.html
(add new subtopic to deal with attribute specialization)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/specvalid.html
(update for attribute validity rules)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/generalize.html
(add descrip of attribute generalization)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/modint.html
(update subtopics to include attribute specialization)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/specproc.html
(update subtopics to provide guidance for specialization-aware attribute
matching)

Language spec impact

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http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/langspec/special.html
(note specialization attributes - base and props)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/langspec/select-atts.html
(add props description)

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/langspec/univ-atts.html
(add base description)

Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead



http://dita.xml.org/blog/25