Re: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic

[Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>]

Does this point need to be addressed in the 1.1 version of the Language
Spec shortdesc description, or in the Arch Spec as a general processing
issue that applies to the new abstract/shortdesc definition?

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Don Day
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             Michael Priestley                                             
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If I recall correctly the decision was to concatenate them. I'm not sure if
we explicitly discussed what would happen in terms of map overrides of an
abstract with multiple shortdescs, but my vote would be that the shortdesc
in the map would override any and all shortdescs in the target topic,
rather than trying to pick and choose.

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

                                                                           
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In DITA 1.1, it appears that you can have more than
one shortdesc in an abstract in a topic.

If there are multiple shortdescs in an abstract,
what do you do with them all?  Use the first?
Combine them somehow?  If you need to override a
shortdesc in a topic with a shortdesc from a map
(topicmeta), and there is more than one in the topic,
which one do you replace? Or do you replace them all?

paul