This scratch pad for the Incremental builds main page.  Like a Wikipedia discussion tab, this page accumlates notes for the design.

2006-4-29 erikh

Maybe pointing out the obvious, incremental builds of plain-old Java can be managed by comparing the timestamp on the source and compiled file only because the runtime JVM handles the integration.

Unless we have a viewer that can provide equivalent integration at runtime, DITA XML modules have to integrate at build time.  That integration has to resolve:

• Dependencies created by xrefs, conrefs, and links within the topic

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A natural complement to topic orientation, in which topics are made independent of one another, are various organizing methods for topics.

The DITA map offers authors several ways to organize topics, but users who encounter a DITA map may not wish to access their topics the way the author of the DITA map expected.

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The DITA Learning and Training Content Specialization Subcommittee (at http://www.oasis-open.org) has been formed under the auspices of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (link is within http://dita.xml.org). The sub-committee is working on methods of representing training in DITA.

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Issue owner:
Don Day <dond at us dot ibm dot com>

Statement of problem or objective:
The index sort today does not work based on language - it appears that all terms are sorted based on English. The sort should work for the appropriate language.

Is this architecture, function, fix, or other?
function/fix

Goals of this proposal:
DITA Maps that are not English will generated an index that is sorted based on the specified language.

Use cases:
If DITA content is translated into Swedish, words in the index may use the characters å, ä, and ö. In English, the default sort places these with the A and O characters. In Swedish, these three letters are sorted at the end of the alphabet, after Z.

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Note: The topicmerge function was updated in DITA-OT 1.3.1, so this item is no longer being developed. Up to date information on the toolkit can be found here: The DITA Open Toolkit

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