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Subject: RE: [dita-help] Context-Sensitivity
Hi Tony and all, In many software development organizations, the hooks are developed by the programmers rather than by the writers. An external file of links facilitates the software developers addition of the proper hooks. However, it certainly can work the way you suggest through a "management" file that is accessed by the DITA processing. JoAnn JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD President Comtech Services, Inc. 710 Kipling Street, Suite 400 Denver CO 80215 303-232-7586 joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com -----Original Message----- From: Tony Self [mailto:tself@hyperwrite.com] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:15 PM To: dita-help@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [dita-help] Context-Sensitivity Dear All I wonder if we can get some discussion going on how context-sensitivity might be approached in DITA. If DITA embraces the objective of separation of content from form, do context-hooks belong in the DITA content, or are they part of the presentation layer? Help Authoring Tools (HATs) such as RoboHelp, particularly when working within the Microsoft HTML Help paradigm, store context hooks in a map file separate from the content. The map file stores the relationship between topics and context hooks. The map file is edited with a software utility that is essentially separate from the HAT application. The hooks are not "authored" into the content. Is this the best approach? Personally, I think they should be stored as metdata within the DITA (maybe in the ditamap). What does everybody think? Tony Self --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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