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["W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>]

The current draft of the language reference says:

"Currently not implemented in DITA
processors. Provides a key that a process
can use to look up associated
information."

I have two problems with this:

1. The first sentence should not be in a specification since it may not 
be true.

2. The second sentence is not sufficiently descriptive of the purpose of 
the attribute. In particular, information associated with what? And for 
what processing purpose. If this attribute is or is not present, what 
processing result should I expect to see?

If this attribute is not implemented then it shouldn't be in the spec 
(or should at least be deprecated) unless there's a well-documented use 
case for it and that use is more clearly documented in the specification 
itself.

Cheers,

Eliot

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