Hi Rob,
While it is true that the conrefs would
work if an organization switched wholesale from the current constrained
task to a looser model, that's not backwards compatibility - that's saying
that if someone wants to preserve their current reuse strategy they should
throw out their content guidelines.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical
Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
From:
"Rob Hanna" <>
To:
"'ekimber'" <>,
"'Kristen James Eberlein'" <>, "'JoAnn
Hackos'" <>
Cc:
"'dita'" <>
Date:
09/23/2009 10:57 AM
Subject:
RE: [dita] DITAbase for conversion
I understand the compatibility problems between constrained
and
unconstrained conrefs. It shouldn't present a problem in environments where
DITA 1.1 DTDs are upgraded to DITA 1.2 DTDs with the unconstrained task
model. It is not a backward compatibility issue. Technically, the older
DITA
1.1 task topics will also be unconstrained but be written to resemble the
constrained task model.
Cheers,
Rob
