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Subject: RE: [dita] referencing a bookmap from a map


Don,

I've not seen any responses to this.  Can you put it on
the agenda for our next meeting?

thanks,

paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 2009 May 28 10:44
> To: dita
> Subject: [dita] referencing a bookmap from a map
> 
> 
> Proposal 12055 is clear about what we do in the specialized map to 
> generic map case and also about the specialized map to specialized 
> map case, but we're not sure what should happen when a generic map 
> references a specialized map.
> 
> For example, what should happen in the following case:
> 
> map1
> ----
> 	topicref to bookmap2
> 
> bookmap2
> --------
> 	frontmatter
> 		booklists
> 			Toc
> 	part referencing a concept
> 		chapter referencing a task
> 
> What are the contexts or roles for the elements in bookmap2?  
> Unchanged?
> Or does the generic topic reference from map1 override the top level 
> topicrefs in bookmap2 so you end up with something 
> effectively like the
> following for bookmap2:
> 
> bookmap2
> --------
> 	topicref for frontmatter
> 		booklists
> 			Toc
> 	topicref for part referencing a concept
> 		chapter referencing a task
> 
> 
> Keeping things unchanged preserves the specialized information from a
> bookmap,
> but it also allows you to create situations using map references that
> you 
> could not create within a single bookmap (e.g., a chapter within a
> chapter or 
> a part within a topic).  
> 
> On the other hand, if the generic topic reference from map1 overrides
> the 
> top level topicrefs in bookmap2, you couldn't create unexpected
> situations, but 
> you lose all of the specialized information from a bookmap because you
> more or 
> less fallback to the lower common denominator of a generic map. 
> 
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