Don,
I've not seen any responses to this. Can you put it on
the agenda for our next meeting?
thanks,
paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, 2009 May 28 10:44
> To: dita
> Subject: [dita] referencing a bookmap from a map
>
>
> Proposal 12055 is clear about what we do in the specialized map to
> generic map case and also about the specialized map to specialized
> map case, but we're not sure what should happen when a generic map
> references a specialized map.
>
> For example, what should happen in the following case:
>
> map1
> ----
> topicref to bookmap2
>
> bookmap2
> --------
> frontmatter
> booklists
> Toc
> part referencing a concept
> chapter referencing a task
>
> What are the contexts or roles for the elements in bookmap2?
> Unchanged?
> Or does the generic topic reference from map1 override the top level
> topicrefs in bookmap2 so you end up with something
> effectively like the
> following for bookmap2:
>
> bookmap2
> --------
> topicref for frontmatter
> booklists
> Toc
> topicref for part referencing a concept
> chapter referencing a task
>
>
> Keeping things unchanged preserves the specialized information from a
> bookmap,
> but it also allows you to create situations using map references that
> you
> could not create within a single bookmap (e.g., a chapter within a
> chapter or
> a part within a topic).
>
> On the other hand, if the generic topic reference from map1 overrides
> the
> top level topicrefs in bookmap2, you couldn't create unexpected
> situations, but
> you lose all of the specialized information from a bookmap because you
> more or
> less fallback to the lower common denominator of a generic map.
>
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