meeting summary: LwDITA SC on LwDITA DTDs

Meeting summary: LwDITA DTDs
The Lightweight DITA subcommittee met on August 2, 2017 to
discuss issues relating to LwDITA DTDs (and Schema and RNG).
This is not a formal meeting minutes, but a summary of issues
discussed and recommendations made.
Issues Discussed:
DTD internal documentation — Discussed improvements to guiding
comments and examples to support users who wish to add filtering
attributes to DTD.
Attribute/element groups — Discussed syntax and guiding
comments for configuring attribute groups in the LwDITA DTDs.
DTD Modularity and Delivery — Discussed whether/how the LwDITA
DTDs should be modularized and how they should support
configuration.
Recommendation to the DITA TC:
LwDITA should deliver a single topic and a single map DTD.
Domains (highlighting and multimedia) should be integrated
into these monolithic DTDs.
Users who wish to configure LwDITA would modify those DTDs
directly.
The SC should provide best practices for configuration … for
example, if you modify the LwDITA DTD, you should rename the DTD
file and give it a new public identifier.
Instructions for configuration can be deferred to the
specification. (Not necessary for the committee note).
The TC should deliver a package w/DTD, RNG, and W3C Schema for
LwDITA.

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