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ditabase

From: Eliot Kimber <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:33:00 -0000

I can’t agree with the assertion that ditabase is obsolete—it has a necessary utility—Robert provided some compelling use cases from IBM (e.g., 100s of small message topics organized together in a single <dita> document). I’ve definitely seen the ditabase document type abused as a way to avoid creating local shells because it allows unrestricted topic type nesting—I find that distasteful but it’s not exactly wrong, even if it is a big misguided. Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Magliery Tom <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 6:51 PM To: Jim Tivy <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [dita] ditabase FWIW that content is not directly from oXygen; it is from Tony Self's book The DITA Style Guide (2011), republished in oXygen docs (by arrangement). mag On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Jim Tivy < [email protected] > wrote: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/styleguide/webhelp-feedback/Artefact/Topics_and_Information_Types/c_Using_Ditabase.html Can we get rid of <dita> for DITA 2.0. We just had another issue here and with Oxygen posting the above we are wondering how long the ecology of tools will continue support for <dita>. I realize this was discussed a few weeks back and it seemed there was support for <dita> removal. What would be the easiest upgrade for people with <dita> files? There was some mention of needing a title but users could have an empty title or descriptive title at their option. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php