RE: [dita] DITAbase for conversion

["Park Seth-R01164" <seth.park@freescale.com>]

FYI,

I set up a wiki page for this topic:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DitaBaseTask

I don't intend to discourage the email thread, but at some point, it may
be useful to capture the main points in a coherent narrative.


-sp


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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: ekimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:28 AM
To: rob@ascan.ca; Kristen James Eberlein; 'JoAnn Hackos'
Cc: dita
Subject: Re: [dita] DITAbase for conversion

On 9/23/09 9:22 AM, "Rob Hanna" <rob@ascan.ca> wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand. If content created in DITA 1.0 and DITA 1.1

> are compatible with the strict, constrained version of task, they 
> should also be valid against the looser, unconstrained version as 
> well. I don't see a backward compatibility issue here. Or am I missing
something?

A constrained task cannot conref from an unconstrained task.

Conref requires that the conref target be at least as constrained (and
compatibly constrained) as the conref source (that is, the document
making the conref link).

Otherwise, you cannot be assured that the conrefed data is valid in the
using context.

Cheers,

Eliot 

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