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Re: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref
Without wanting to complicate this even further, won’t the “target” means “linking target” (of the conref attribute) approach flip-flop when it comes to conref push? If we find consistent terminology, we’ll have to make sure it fits for both conref pull and conref push. (I don’t think Bruce’s content-bearing/conref-bearing terminology would work for both.)
Tony
From: Michael Priestley [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 2 October 2009 12:54 AM
To: Joann Hackos
Cc: DITA TC; 'Ogden, Jeff'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref
It depends on if you're talking about the source and target of the reuse, or the source and target of the conref attribute. You'd use the terms in exactly opposite ways, as we've just found.
As others have noted, that's why we should probably avoid those terms entirely, or at least scope them explicitly as Robert has done (eg "the target of the conref attribute" rather than "the target of the reuse").
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
[email protected]
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
From:
Joann Hackos <[email protected]>
To:
<[email protected]>, "'Ogden, Jeff'" <[email protected]>, DITA TC <[email protected]>
Date:
10/01/2009 10:47 AM
Subject:
Re: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref
I think Tony has it right in terms of the logic. You have a source topic
that contains the element and a target topic in which you place the reused
element.
JoAnn
On 9/29/09 6:18 PM, "Tony Self" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification, Jeff.
>
> With regard to the terms "conref source" and "conref target", I have been
> using "conref source" to mean the element containing the content to be
> re-used (with an id attribute), and "conref target" to mean the element into
> which the content source is included (with a conref attribute). Am I using
> the terms the wrong way round?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
>
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