From: Michael Priestley
[mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:24
AM
To: Ogden, Jeff
Cc: Don Day; Grosso, Paul; Robert
D Anderson
Subject: RE: graphical hotspots in
DITA documents
Take a look
at this a let me know how well I remembered and followed the
suggestions Michael made
during yesterday's DITA TC call.
The suggestion was to do
something informal now and then formalize it in
DITA 1.3 or DITA 2.0 or
whatever comes after DITA 1.2. We'd add a new
<name> element,
probably a specialization of shape, to carry the object
name within area within
imagemap. For DITA 1.2 we'd leave the required
coords element within area
empty and for DITA 1.3 we'd make coords
optional.
If we take this approach,
in DITA 1.2 we'd have something along these
lines:
<topic
id="mytopic">
. . .
<imagemap>
<image
href=""image.iso"></image>
<area>
<name>sparkplug</name>
<coords></coords>
<xref
scope="external" format="html"
href=""http://www.buysparkplugs.com"></xref>
</area>
<area id="tofanbelt">
<name>fanbelt</name>
<coords></coords>
</area>
. . .
</imagemap>
. . .
<xref scope="local"
format="dita" href=""#mytopic/tofanbelt">
Show me the fanbelt</xref>
. . .
</topic>
Or in DITA 1.3 we could omit <cords>:
<topic id="mytopic">
. . .
<imagemap>
<image
href=""image.iso"></image>
<area>
<name>sparkplug</name>
<xref
scope="external" format="html"
href=""http://www.buysparkplugs.com"></xref>
</area>
<area id="tofanbelt">
<name>fanbelt</name>
</area>
. . .
</imagemap>
. . .
<xref scope="local"
format="dita" href=""#mytopic/tofanbelt">
Show me the fanbelt</xref>
. . .
</topic>
I think a single area
could have both an id and include an xref in which
case it would provide both
the text to graphic and graphic to text
mappings, but it would
probably be more common to use separate area
elements for the from and
to links. And you don't need to have both from
and to links or you could
have several of each.
It might be better to
specialize the new name element from title, but in
that case we'd need to
leave both <shape> and <cords> empty in DITA 1.2.
-Jeff
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: Robert D
Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, March
03, 2008 10:54 AM
> To: Ogden, Jeff
> Cc: Don Day; Michael
Priestley; Grosso, Paul
> Subject: RE:
graphical hotspots in DITA documents
>
> Hi Jeff - I don't
know of any work on hotspots, so you may have better
> luck at the TC.
>
> As to an S1000D
subcommittee, I do not think that we have one, although
> there has been talk
of how the two standards could cooperate. Michael
> has spoken about that at several events.
>
> Robert D Anderson
> IBM Authoring Tools
Development
> Chief Architect, DITA
Open Toolkit
> (507) 253-8787, T/L
553-8787 (Good Monday & Thursday)
>
>
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>
"Ogden, Jeff"
>
<jogden@ptc.com>
>
To
>
03/03/2008 09:45
Don Day/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
"Michael
>
AM
Priestley"
<mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>,
>
Robert D
>
Anderson/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
>
cc
>
"Grosso, Paul"
<pgrosso@ptc.com>
>
Subject
>
RE: graphical hotspots in DITA
>
documents
>
> Hi,
>
> Should I send a
version of this note to the DITA TC list and then ask the
> question during an
upcoming DITA TC call?
>
> -Jeff
>
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> From:
Ogden, Jeff
> Sent: Thursday, February
28, 2008 1:39 PM
> To: 'Don Day';
'Michael Priestley'; 'Robert D Anderson'
> Cc: Grosso, Paul
> Subject: graphical
hotspots in DITA documents
>
> Hi,
>
> Has there been any
discussion about how to use existing DTIA markup or
> how to create a domain specialization to handle graphical
hotspots?
>
> Graphical hotspots
come up most often in relationship to CGM graphics where
> there are named
graphics objects and you want to be able to link "from a
> hotspot" or link
"to a hotspot". The linking should be done in the context
> of the document that
includes the graphic rather than from or to the
> graphic itself.
>
> In some ways
"from hotspotting" is similar to an imagemap where the
> coordinates in the
imagemap are replaced by the hotspot name. We were
> wondering about using
a <shape> of "name" and placing the name itself
> as content of the coordis element.
>
> I can't think of any
existing DITA markup that is similar to the "to
> hotspotting"
where you want to link to a document to activate a named
> hotspot in the
graphic, but I could imagine adapting a element structure
> similar to imagemap
to do this even if the image map would be being
> used in the opposite direction from its traditional use.
>
> You don't need to dig
into this any further unless you want to since
> all I am after is a pointer to any documents, a person, or
a group that
> might have ideas about this in the context of DITA,
but there is a discussion
> of Hotspots in the
context of XML, but not in the context of DITA, in
> the S1000D document Chapter 3.9.5.2.1.8:
>
http://www.s1000d.org/reader.cfm?sector=issues&page=reader&issue=3.0&default=DMC-AE-A-03-09-0000-00A-001A-A_005-00
>
>
> There isn't a DITA TC
S1000D sub-committee is there? I sort of vaguely
> remember someone
mentioning something about such a committee, but I
> don't remember anything recently.
>
> -Jeff