From: Michael
Priestley [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
11:23 AM
To: Ogden, Jeff
Cc: dita; Robert D Anderson
Subject: RE: [dita]
processing-role attribute [cascading]
Actually it could be quite useful for processing-role
to cascade. For example:
Author
A creates a single map that defines both a TOC and the keys for the topicrefs
in the TOC (not using keydef - just a single TOC with a key on each topicref)
Author
B wants to reuse a bunch of the topics but their own nav. So they want to use
the key definitions in author A's map but not the nav structure. So they create
a mapref (or a conref to a subset of the target map) setting
processing-role="resourceonly".
Michael
Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
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"Ogden, Jeff"
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04/21/2009 11:12 AM
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"Robert D Anderson"
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RE: [dita] processing-role attribute
[cascading]
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I've got cascading on the brain and so ...
I
assume that @processing-role itself does not cascade.
But
does @processing-role="resource-only" change the cascading behavior
for any other attributes or other properties?
Cascading
within a map?
Cascading
from map to map?
Cascading
from map to topic?
-Jeff
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com]
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Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:45 AM
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To: dita
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Subject: [dita] processing-role attribute
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Recently we approved adding the new processing-role attribute, with values
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of "normal" and "resource-only", to topicref and its
specializations. Use
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of processing-role="resource-only" indicates that the target is to be
used
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only as a resource, without appearing in any generated TOC, not linked to,
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not generated as part of PDF/XHTML/whatever other output.
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We also have a new <keydef> element as a shortcut for defining keys in
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DITA
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1.2. It defaults to toc=no, linking=none, and print=no. So my question is,
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should it also default to processing-role=resource-only? This seems
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logical, and in fact seems part of the reason we added resource-only, but
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I
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don't think it was called out in the original discussion.
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Thanks -
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Robert D Anderson
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IBM Authoring Tools Development
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Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
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