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

["Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>]

I've included brief mention in the summary topic I'm working up on the
interrelations of all the mechanisms for use by reference. (That's the
current state of my response to my AI from the last call.) It is already
mentioned in the lang ref topic on <fn>.

	/B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ekimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:24 PM
> To: Gershon Joseph (gerjosep); Ogden, Jeff; Bruce Nevin (bnevin); dita
> Subject: Re: [dita] Presence of @id affects processing?
> 
> On 10/29/09 1:14 PM, "Gershon Joseph (gerjosep)" 
> <gerjosep@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> > Because it's only on <fn>, I think we should mention this 
> in detail in 
> > the lang spec for <fn> and in the arch spec discussion of @id just 
> > briefly mention that there is a special behavior associated 
> with <fn> 
> > and details are provided in the lang spec for that element.
> >  
> > Alternatively, since this is arguably arch spec content, have a 
> > dedicated section in the @id topic that describes this special 
> > behavior of the <fn> in detail, and have the lang spec 
> topic for <fn> 
> > call out the need to read the arch spec @id topic for 
> details of the 
> > special @id behavior.
> 
> I think the first option is better since this is really a 
> detail of how fn works, not a more general architectural 
> aspect of DITA.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> E.
> 
> 
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