Questions from Simply XML

Dear LwDITA SC members,

I asked Doug Gorman for permission to share his questions about LwDITA so we can discuss in a call.

Here they are:

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This is a strong opportunity for us and we have 
spent the last week or so working on Simple Table and other issues. 
With a focus outside of Tech Pubs, most of our DITA customers use only 
DITA Topic and DITA Map rather than the other structures.Â
 The biggest issue relative to Lightweight DITA has been that our 
current customer base uses more complex tables for their content.

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Iâve copied the people I know who are involved in 
various LW DITA Committees. We would be pleased if you point out any 
misunderstandings that we may have or comment on what appear to us to be
 the following issues:

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Our broad Simply DITA Schema is valid under DITA 
1.1, 1.2, or 1.3. We see that some of our functionality needs to vary 
depending on which DITA Schema we are validating against. The use of 
Navtitle is one
 of those.

In Lightweight DITA 
Topics we do not currently support Alttext or Description. These appear
 to be MS Word limitations. We can imagine work-arounds in a real 
customer situation if this is critical.

In
 Lightweight DITA Maps we do not support KeyDef, Data, Phrase, or Inline
 elements. It would be helpful to have some background here. For 
example, would inline elements like bold be applied only to the
 Map Title

We
 notice that the DOTK Markdown converter does not like paragraphs in 
simple table or definition list entries. Is this something youâre aware 
of, or should we flag it as a bug?

There
 is no mention of processing instructions that we have seen. Are these 
still allowed in Lightweight DITA? We assume the answer is yes.
Best,

Carlos

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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112

(540)200-8201