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Subject: Re: [dita] referencing a bookmap from a map
On 6/12/09 1:50 PM, "Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com> wrote: > One use case that uses map to specialized map references involves > several separate "books" each developed independently and each with > their own map. Each map is a different map specialization. As an > example we might use a bookmap and a learningbookmap. > > > > At a later time someone wants to create a new deliverable that includes > two or more of these existing "books". So they use a generic map that > references each of the specialized maps that they want to include, > something like this: > > > > map > > title > > topicref to bookmap > > topicref to leaningbookmap > > > > They might well get two separate frontmatter and backmatter sections, > one for each book and that is fine. But in fact this use assumes that the intended (or only allowed) result is a single unit of publication. But in fact, as indicated in my note of a few minutes ago about clarifying peer, there is no DITA-defined notion of "publication" nor is there a way to indicate that a given map is only navigation over separate publications as opposed to defining an atomic unit of publication. In the case where map is only providing navigation, it's hard to argue that nesting reference to one bookmap inside a reference to another bookmap would be a problem since it's a purely navigation relationship and may simply indicate a hierarchy (similar to the library navigation trees we had at the front of the manuals in the Networking System publications back in my day). That argument alone, is sufficient, I think, to make it clear that disallowing any particular organization of stuff in a map by the spec would be wrong--the sensibleness is entirely a function of the processing semantics of the map and not the things included. Cheers, E. ---- Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. email: ekimber@reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com>
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