RE: [dita] DITA 1.3 FEATURE REQUEST: <gloss-sort-as>

Thanks 
Su-Laine, so we can ignore this then, since it's already covered. I'll let the 
DITA Adoption TC know.

 

Gershon

From: Su-Laine Yeo 
[mailto:] 
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 
9:37 PM
To: Gershon Joseph (gerjosep); DITA TC
Subject: RE: 
[dita] DITA 1.3 FEATURE REQUEST: <gloss-sort-as>

Hi,

 

It’s logged here as 
item #13010: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_1.3_Proposals?highlight=(1.3) 
. 

 

Su-Laine

 

Su-Laine 
Yeo
Interaction 
Design Specialist 

JustSystems 
Canada, Inc.
Office: 
778-327-6356 



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From: Gershon Joseph 
(gerjosep) [mailto:] 
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 
5:06 AM
To: DITA TC
Subject: [dita] DITA 1.3 FEATURE 
REQUEST: <gloss-sort-as>

 

Hi 
all,

 

At our 
previous DITA Adoption TC meeting, one of the DITA-OT developers pointed out 
that the new glossary markup does not address sorting the glossary entries. I 
would like to add a discussion of this item to a future DITA TC meeting for 
consideration. I don't expect this to make it into DITA 1.2, but rather have us 
discuss it and decide whether to add it to our 1.3 list or reject 
it.

 

Thanks,

Gershon

 

From: Gershon Joseph 
(gerjosep) 
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 3:15 PM
To: Joe 
Gelb; 
Cc: JoAnn 
Hackos
Subject: RE: [dita-adoption] glossary 
support

Hi 
Joe,

 

I'll 
take the sort as issue to the TC. Thanks for pointing it 
out.

 

Many 
of the new elements in the glossary spec require quite a lot of specialized 
processing, so tools will need to support them. I'd need to remind myself on how 
much is normative -- I expect most if not all of the processing requirements 
would be non-normative, in which case tools can do what they 
want.

 

Gershon

 

From: Joe Gelb 
[mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:29 
PM
To: 
Cc: 'JoAnn 
Hackos'; Gershon Joseph (gerjosep)
Subject: [dita-adoption] glossary 
support

Hi,

I’m not sure if I 
will be able to make today’s call (or at least not the whole thing) but I wanted 
to give an answer to the group about the glossary 1.2 spec support in the 
current 1.5M10 FO plug-in.

Basically: there is 
nearly 0% support added in up to now. However, since all the elements are 
specialized from something else, it could be that there would be reasonable 
behavior without doing much – would need to get tested with some real content. 
This is aside from any specific best practice behaviors specified in the spec 
that would require complex processing.

Although I am fairly 
certain we do have code for implementing glossaries, we have not yet hit upon 
any customers who asked for this implementation, so we do not have anything 
ready for contribution on this at this point. However, we did have a customer 
who needed something that was not included in this spec, 
<gloss-sort-as>, which we did in fact implement. Perhaps someone on the 
dita architecture committee (or whoever created this spec) can suggest including 
this.

Hope this 
helps.

Joe

 

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Gelb
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