Re: [dita] Attributes when using conref

[Robert D Anderson <robander@us.ibm.com>]

What Michael described is how the DITA Open Toolkit works. There is an
example here:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200510/msg00055.html

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit


                                                                           
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I'm in favour of using both, with the source's attributes winning in a
pitched battle. IE, the conreffing element can override attributes on the
target, where necessary (eg adding a conditional property, or an
outputclass value...)

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect
SWG Classification Schema PDT Lead
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I could not find this in our doc:

When I conref an element, should I used the attributes from the source or
from the target? My first idea is to use the target's attributes.

What do you think?

France Baril
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