inherited attribute values in a DITA relationship table

I would propose that more specific metadata
overrides more general metadata, and that the order of general-to-specific
would go:

table 
column
row
cell
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Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead



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Subject: [dita] inherited attribute values in a DITA relationship table


In the DITA 1.1 Architecture Spec,
on page 21 toward the end of the section on “Inheritance of attributes
and metadata” it says:
 
         
  Tables can be particularly useful for attribute and metadata management,
since they 
can be applied to entire columns
or rows as well as individual cells.
 
Elements within a cell inherit
default attribute values much as the same elements outside of a table.
 And within a table the order of inheritance goes from elements in
a relcell to the relcell to the relrow to the reltable and then on up to
the map element.  What isn’t clear is where inheritance by column
(relcolspec) fits into the above list and how conflicts between relrow
and relcell values are resolved.
 
We need to figure out the answer
and make it clear in the spec.