Difficulty of interaction between <related-links> and reltable links

[Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>]

If I am authoring a topic not in a map context, I need to use 
<related-links> for links to Web sites.

If the topic later becomes part of a map, I often will want to manage 
the link relationships in a relationship table.

However, the markup syntax makes moving <related-links> to relationship 
tables difficult.

Is this something that we should consider addressing for DITA 2.0? I do 
realize that how the DITA-OT PDF2 transform handles this might be 
something to consider ...

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Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)