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Subject: Keyref Questions and Suggestions
These questions are not relevant to 1.1 but should be answered in the 1.2 time-frame. They all refer to: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/13757/IssueNumber40.ht ml 1. What happens if the same key is defined multiple times? What if this happens due to map combination through mapref? 2. The proposal give the following example of a use of keyref: <p conref="topicone/mypara"/> How is this not a conref to the top-level topic in a file called "topicone/mypara"? Do we really want to create a convention that says that you can reference a paragraph in another topic without using a pound-sign? It seems quite inconsistent with DITA and with HTML/Web convention. 3. The proposal suggests that it should be possible to refer to a topic by topicid. A processor could only find a topic by topicid if it had an index of all topics which it could only generate by reading every file in a map. It seems to me that there are some performance implications to that requirement. 4. It isn't really described why the fact that maps "focus on topics and not elements" is a good thing. It isn't clear how it simplfies things to allow some identifiers to be remapped and others to not to be. It is pretty easy to imagine a use case where you want to redirect a glossary or index entry reference at the element rather than topic level. 5. The way that the proposal suggests to use topicref titles seems strange to me. In general, the whole idea of a "topicref without an href" is weird, though DITA allows it. DITA's hierarchy would seem more intuitive to me if it were like this: mapitem topicref - requires @href topicgroup - meaningless wrapper, no @href topichead - no @href 6. The Costs section should address global link checking and management. This is much more complicated in the face of keyref. Paul Prescod
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