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Subject: Note about resolving conref.

From: "JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>
To: <dita-translation@lists.oasis-open.org>,"Bryan Schnabel" <bryan.s.schnabel@tek.com>,<christian.lieske@sap.com>,<dpooley@sdl.com>,<esrig-ia@esrig.com>,<fsasaki@w3.org>,<rfletcher@sdl.com>,"Howard.Schwartz" <Howard.Schwartz@trados.com>,<ishida@w3.org>,<rmraya@maxprograms.com>,<tony.jewtushenko@productinnovator.com>,<ysavourel@translate.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:40:26 -0600

Here is an idea about resolving conrefs that I received from Michael Priestly. Please consider it for our committee meeting tomorrow. I am looking for a process that we can recommend in an amendment to the conref best practices document.

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It would require custom XSLT. Probably not much, using one of the existing conref XSLTs as a base. Prior to sending files to translation, the author would run a packaging process that runs the XSLT against each of the files they intend to send. The packaging process would require some custom batch files to run the XSLT, probably ant-based if they're using the DITA open toolkit since they could borrow from existing processes again.

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JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
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