Action Item: additional normative and non-normative references

[Eliot Kimber <eliot.kimber@servicenow.com>]

Make a pass over the current state of the DITA 2.0 spec looking for any mentions of things for which there is something like a standard that governs it.

 

I did not identify any additional normative references, which is not a surprise since very little beyond the use of XML and URIs is normative by reference in DITA.

 

I identified the following specifications that should probably be added to the non-normative list:

 

• XSLT3: XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0, Michael Kay, Editor. World Wide Web Consortium, 7 February 2017. This version is https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/CR-xslt-30-20170207/. The latest version is available at https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/.
• HTML5: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/, HTML Living Standard
• WCAT: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
• UNICODE BIDIRECTIONAL ALGORITHM, https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/
• HTML5 definition of the @dir attribute (to replace HTML 4.01 specification cited in current spec): https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-dir-attribute
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition), https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/. (There is an SVG 2 candidate recommendation, published October, 2018, but it appears to be unlikely to ever make it to Recommendation status.)
• ANSI Z535.6-2011 (R2017), Product Safety Information In Product Manuals, Instructions And Other Collateral Materials

 

Note that HTML5 is a slippery beast as it’s no longer a W3C specification (the W3C formally agreed to participate in the WHATWG to contribute to HTML 5 development) and there’s no single thing to cite except the WHATWG web site itself, which is what I’ve done here. All other forms of HTML appear to be effectively obsolete from a standards standpoint since the only thing that really matters is what browsers implement, which means what the WHATWG documents.

 

Cheers,

 

E.

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