Re: [dita] Meaningful Values for type= on xref and topicref

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 5/22/09 9:26 AM, "Michael Priestley" <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com> wrote:

>> It would probably make
>> sense that unqualified type names can only refer to standard-defined
> types
>> since that's the only context in which they are unambiguous.
> 
> That makes sense for xref, but I don't think it's necessary for topicref.
> On an xref, type="newpara" might be a link to mytopic/newpara or
> yourtopic/newpara. But on topicref, it shouldn't be ambiguous. When a
> topicref points to a DITA resource, it's a topic - and the topic's class
> attribute is always somewhat redundant, since the name of the element and
> the name of the specialization package are the same.

I know it's established convention that the topic module name and the topic
type name are the same, but is that actually required by the spec?

Cheers,

E. 

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