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Attribute inconsistencies across Subject Scheme

From: Robert Anderson
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:23:00 -0000

I suspect I know the answer to this one, but I have to ask / notify the TC... In updating attribute tables, I've found a discrepance in quite a few topicref specializations in the Subject Scheme map. All of the "has" elements, like hasInstance and hasKind, declare in the spec that they take @outputclass as an attribute. In the DTD implementation, they do not. I think the same is true of a couple other elements in there. Once again spec is canonical, so officially these attributes exist even if nobody knows it. I can already hear Don saying "everything should have @outputclass." So, I think the answer is to treat this as an errata item, and add the attributes to the DTD/XSD/RelaxNG for DITA 1.3. Just looking for TC signoff before I update them. Thanks - Robert D Anderson IBM Authoring Tools Development Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit ( http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/ )