Re: [dita] Conref of topicref to topicref: are relative URIsrewritten?

[ekimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 11/9/09 9:15 AM, "Robert D Anderson" <robander@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Good point, I'd forgotten about that case. I think that came up several
> months ago, and we decided it was too late in DITA 1.2 to try and resolve
> that specific issue, given that implementations likely resolve it
> differently today. I know what we do for that particular case, but (as
> others often point out) what the OT does is not particularly relevant in
> determining what the spec should do.
> 
> I'm not sure how that affects the more general case though, in that the (to
> me) obvious behavior seems to be technically invalid. Perhaps some wiggle
> room around the href attribute, stating that attributes containing relative
> URIs may be adjusted as conref is resolved?

That would be my preference: this is clearly a bug in the spec. Making it a
"may" lets the Toolkit conform and lets any other tool that, for whatever
reason, doesn't do it the Toolkit way to also conform.

Frankly, I can't imagine a tool used seriously not doing it the Toolkit way,
but you never know.

Cheers,

E.

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