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Subject: RE: [dita] Proposal: "DITA decoration catalog"
Is the desire to get something done within the next month a hope
to have this included in the DITA 1.2 spec? If so, I don’t think that is
a good idea. This seems like the sort of thing that should have a full
proposal and discussion and that makes it a DITA 1.3 issue. If I can get past the timing issue, I’m not sure what I
think of this proposal. The outputclass attribute is pretty loosely
defined and its use is pretty application/implementation dependent. And
the decorations are pretty formatting/styling based. So I wonder if they really
belong in the spec. If it does belong in the spec., perhaps there needs
to be some other more formal way (new attribute, new elements) to do it so as
not to overload outputclass with a mix of standards based and ad hoc uses. And,
finally, this feels a little like it might be/should be related to the flagging
part of filtering and flagging. For that it is pretty easy to add new multi-valued
conditional processing attribute specializations based upon props. If that
approach is viable, the discussion would change to one about how you specify
the different “decorations” in the ditaval file. -Jeff From: Park Seth-R01164
[mailto:seth.park@freescale.com] I'm
giving my users the ability to define non-semantic decorations using
outputclass. I do this with reservation, but I'm convinced that we'll see more
of this kind of request in the near future. I'd
like to request that we provide a "DITA decoration catalog" of
outputclass values that should be meaningful across local systems yet
customizable for local requirements. I've
captured a sample implementation of such a catalog at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_Decorations. Anybody
else confronted with this demand? I
need to roll out something within the next month. Any chance of resolving an
initial list of standard outputclass values before then? -seth
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