RE: [dita] Presence of @id affects processing?

["Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com>]

Comments below.

 

   -Jeff

 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: seth.park@freescale.com [mailto:seth.park@freescale.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:27 PM

> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org

> Subject: [dita] Presence of @id affects processing?

>

> The 1.1 lang spec for <fn/> says that the presence of the ID attribute

> on <fn/> affects how the footnote is rendered. Is that true?

 

[JeffO:] Yes, it’s true.  In retrospect this might not be the best design, but we are stuck with it now.

 

> If so, I think we need to mention it in the ID attribute section of the

> archspec. I'm imagining a tool vendor providing an option to

> "automatically generate IDs", not knowing that the presence of the ID

> attribute has processing implications.

>

> Are there other elements for which the presence of @id has any effect,

> whatsoever?

 

[JeffO:] Not that I am aware of, but it is hard to be absolutely certain without rereading the entire spec. with this in mind.

>

>

> source: http://docs.oasis-

> open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/langspec/langref/fn.html

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>

> -seth