Don Day wrote: > I asked Robert Anderson to comment on this issue, Hussein. Robert is the > current project manager for the DITA Open Toolkit, and maintains the DTDs > and Schemas for the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. He informed me, > > "The DITAArch attribute was #FIXED in DITA 1.0, so if you have any value > other than "1.0" and use the 1.0 DTDs, it will generate an error. It won't > do that with 1.1 and later, but changing the value probably won't do > anything for you. > > "If the tool can manage it ... then a tool could point to specific versions > of the DTD/Schema, though that's not quite related to the version of the > DITA-OT. With DITA 1.2 it will be easier for tools to manage pointing to a > specific version of the DTD ... the Schemas may already be set up for that > though. Right now you can point to version specific copies of the DTD, but > internal modules do not use version specific identifiers. The Schemas may > already be version-specific everywhere." > > I hope this background helps with understanding what value this attribute > might have to your current processes. >
Thank you for this information.
