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Subject: E-mails exchanged with Markus Wiedenaier about not distributing XSDs for DITA 2.0
Start from the bottom and read up, if interested. Best,
Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee OASIS Distinguished Contributor Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting LLC www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype) -------- Forwarded Message --------
Hi Kris, first of all, many
thanks you are taking my concerns serious, and for this chat
on a hot weekend. I understand your
arguments very well. I just find it a bit unfortunate that
this limits the technology and thus the use of tools to
actually one.
BTW: this would also
happen if only RNG would be supported. The general
distribution of RNG is even more limited than the DTD is in
the meantime. I am now slowly coming
to terms with the fact that we have to live with it.
ð Let me know if I can do
anything. Giving a hand or whatever is necessary to do. Have a great Sunday Markus Von: Kristen James Eberlein
<kris@eberleinconsulting.com>
Hi, Markus. This is my personal opinion -- I will bring up your
suggestion at a TC meeting -- but I think there is no chance
AT ALL that we would stop distributing DTDs and go back
to distributing XSD.
By far, the majority of DITA tools use DTDs. The only tools
that require XSDs (that I am aware of) are XEditor, Fonto XML,
and your company's tool set. In constrast, there are more than
three dozen widely-used tools that require DTDs.
In an ideal world, the DITA TC would only distribute
RNG-based grammar files. That is the normative format for
DITA. But, we continue to ship DTD-based grammar files because
of the large number of tools that require them.
The DITA TC decided to stop distributing XSDs because we do
not have the resources to support them. At the time we made
that decision, we discussed our options, and we came to the
conclusion that the only way that we could continue to
distribute XSD-based grammar files would be if there were
voting members of the TC with the time and skills to develop,
test, and maintain the XSDs over the lone run. And the DITA TC
just does not have those people! Best, On 6/20/2021 6:04 AM, markus.wiedenmaier
wrote:
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