Re: [dita] Using glossary terms by reference

[Robert D Anderson <robander@us.ibm.com>]

Hi Eliot -

> The only other solution I could think of was to use xref to point to the
> glossentry topic with the expectation that the rendered result of the
> xref is the glossterm value (which I guess is what you might get by
> default since glossterm specializes title. Hmmm.

Yes, this would work, and would probably be the best way to pull in a term
if you also want a link. Otherwise, I think conref is the only way to reuse
a term with DITA 1.1.

I know there are at least two proposals on the table for 1.2 that may
provide an easier way to reuse the term. One is Issue 40 for keyref:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/13757/IssueNumber40.html

The other is Issue 43 for semantic or implicit linking:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15122/IssueNumber43.html

Thanks-

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
(507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787

"W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com> wrote on 01/22/2007
10:00:05 PM:

> W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>
> > In reviewing the glossary support markup I don't see any direct
solution
> > other than using <term> within <glossterm> and then doing conrefs to
the
> > terms where you want to reflect the term in content.
> >
> > Obviously this will work but is there a better way?
>
> The only other solution I could think of was to use xref to point to the
> glossentry topic with the expectation that the rendered result of the
> xref is the glossterm value (which I guess is what you might get by
> default since glossterm specializes title. Hmmm.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>
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