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Subject: Re: [dita] With multimedia coming, what happens to the object element?
Thanks, Robert ... good observations and comments. I experienced whiplash when I learned that the review target was DITA 2.0, not the DITA 1.3 multimedia domain that we had long planned. But if 2.0 is the target, I don't believe we would have designed the multimedia support in the way that we did. Using child elements to specify properties makes the vocabulary much more verbose than otherwise (9 element types instead of 2), and is especially awkward for Lightweight DITA. I like the idea of adding audio and video to the DITA 2.0 base. I would favor defining attributes to specify properties, as does HTML5. We can still release a DITA 1.3 multimedia domain as currently
designed, if it's the will of the TC to do so. I'll note that this approach would have ramifications for Lightweight DITA, which I have barely begun to think through. -Alan On 8/2/19 4:52 PM, Robert D Anderson
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