RE: [dita] DITA 1.2 Suggestion - Add helpcontext element to topicref

["Tony Self" <tself@hyperwrite.com>]

Dear Deborah

The resourceid is in the topic prolog, whereas I was thinking of a helpcontext element in the ditamap topicref. And yes, this is for context-sensitive Help purposes. A topic may be used in different help systems, and might require a different context hook for each. Thus my reasoning that the context metadata belongs in the map. 

Also, although the resourceid element is a close fit, my understanding was that it's intention was more to associate a topic with something like a transaction id or screen number in the application that the topic is supporting. You might require both a transaction reference and a context hook. Although the prolog can take any number of resourceids, how would you identify which one contains the context hook info?

Regards

Tony


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From: Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com [mailto:Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:18 PM
To: tself@hyperwrite.com
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Subject: Re: [dita] DITA 1.2 Suggestion - Add helpcontext element to topicref



"Tony Self" <tself@hyperwrite.com> wrote on 20/03/2007 09:14:29 AM:
> Add a helpcontext element to the topicref element. The helpcontext 
> element needs contextstring and contextnumber attributes.

I'm assuming that this is to do with associating context-sensitive help with a particular topic.  If so, we already have this, in resourceid, with its attributes appname and id.  Or am I missing something? 

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Deborah Pickett
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com