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Subject: Re: [dita] dita table model
At 17:47 2004-07-19 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: >At last week's telcon, during the discussion of what table model >to use in DITA, it was suggested that forcing users to use >a particular table model will discourage users who are already >standardized on a different model. > >DITA is a DTD, so right off we are constraining users by defining >a vocabulary they must use. DITA goes to greater extents than >most other vocabularies to provide a controlled way to extend >the vocabulary, but within fairly limited bounds that ensure the >benefits of a known vocabulary are not entirely lost. > >DITA's extension mechanism maintains most of the benefits of >a known vocabulary by ensuring that the XSLT already written >for the known vocabulary will work for newly defined tags. > >Doing something like this for disparate table models would be >very difficult. Just to clarify: when I said "doing something like this for disparate table models" I didn't mean one couldn't use specialization on table tags. I meant that one couldn't expect--as one does with specialization-- that one could plug an arbitrary table model into the DITA vocabulary and have it work in the existing stylesheet and tools. paul
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