ditaval flagging issue and proposal

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

We currently have two ways of flagging
content using ditaval:
- style the content, eg with color or
font: this text applies to Linux
- put flags at the start and/or end
of the content, eg text or images: LINUX this text applies to Linux

Users can specify both at once, although
my expectation would be that typically a value would be flagged using one
method or the other, rather than both at once.

In the flagging case, we don't currently
have a way of styling the text that is the flag. Given that the text flag
is likely to be used instead of actually styling the content, I propose
that when the text flag is used, the style choices should apply to the
flag rather than the content.

EG: 
<prop att="platform" action="flag"
style="bold"><startflag>LINUX</startflag><prop>
results in
LINUX this text applies to Linux

rather than 

LINUX this text applies to Linux

(which is what the current specification
would suggest)

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25