results from recent DITA 1.2 terminology discussions
For the "no further direct dependencies" semantics of the word "atomic", how about adding the word "completely"? The uniquely-named collection of element type and attribute type declarations that completely defines a map type, topic type, or domain. Or is there some complication hidden in your words "further" and "direct"? Further: Are there some direct dependencies and we're saying there are no additional ones? Direct: are there indirect dependencies? >