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Type:
Bug
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Status: New
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 CSPRD01
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Public reviews
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Labels:None
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Environment:
References
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Proposal:
1.3 Normative References reads in part:
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Normative references are references to external documents or resources to which implementers of DITA MUST comply.
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As it reads, all implementers of DITA must conform to SVG 1.1 for example. As I read SVG 1.1, http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/conform.html, it offers a fairly complex matrix of possible conformances and simply using an external reference does not put implementers on notice of what they are being required to do to conform to the DITA standard.
The usual listing of normative references is a citation list that is used later to refer implementers to particular parts of the normative reference to which they must conform. For example, if a DITA viewer must support SVG to conform to this standard (I don't know, I haven't read ahead), then at the appropriate place, you would reference the definition of a conforming SVG viewer, in SVG 1.1 and the implementer would know what is being required of them.