Does the TC have the daring to eat its own dogfood? ?->
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ekimber [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:09 PM
> To: Bruce Nevin (bnevin); Kristen James Eberlein;
> ; dita
> Subject: Re: [dita] Some practical problems related to packaging
>
> On 8/26/09 2:56 PM, "Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <> wrote:
>
> > Seth, I do believe that the motivation for peeling away the base
> > package has substantial value, namely, providing the
> simplest possible
> > setup for implementers to get their feet wet and figure out
> how it all
> > works before delving into the daunting complexities.
> >
> > Presenting the training stuff separately also has value, since many
> > existing and new users will not want to have to wade past a raft of
> > new elements and attributes that they never use.
> >
> > The problem you identify, Kristen, could best be solved using
> > simplified topic types in 1.3, intermediate between <topic> and the
> > current C/T/R types. For now, we may have to tell them
> that if they
> > want to use the sources of the base docs as examples of how
> it's done,
> > they'll have to do so in context of the more extensive
> package that is
> > equivalent to 1.1.
>
> It could also be solved by treating the spec for what it is:
> a specific application of DITA that will require its own
> supporting infrastructure, including specializations, plugins
> with schemas and DTDs, processing extensions, etc.
>
> The nature of DITA is that it cannot be adequately documented
> by its most minimal expression.
>
> Or said another way, the DITA specification is itself a
> technical document that appropriately requires the tech doc
> package. I don't see that as a problem.
>
> Another solution would be to generalize all the topics to
> <topic> for the purposes of packaging with the base
> module--that's actually the first compelling real-world use
> of generalization that I've seen...
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
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