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

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

It should be addressed in the language
spec entries for abstract and shortdesc. My to-do. 

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

"Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>

09/26/2006 09:24 AM

To	"Don Day" <dond@us.ibm.com>, Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
cc	<dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject	RE: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic

It should be addressed somewhere.

paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 2006 September 25 15:32
> To: Michael Priestley
> Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org; Grosso, Paul
> Subject: Re: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic
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> 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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> Regards,
> --
> Don Day
> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> IBM Lead DITA Architect
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> In DITA 1.1, it appears that you can have more than
> one shortdesc in an abstract in a topic.
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> 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?
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