Re: [dita] Issue: Map element IDs and references to them

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 8/18/09 4:34 PM, "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote:

> But Rob's point (I believe) is what if the silly section had
> an xref to the note with the id="test"?  After conreffing it
> into your topic, that xref will now link to something completely
> different than the author of the silly section intended.

Only if you say that pointers are not rewritten as part of the conref
process.

But IDs *must* be rewritten in this case, in order to avoid exactly this
conflict. In the case of an xref *within* the conreffed bit, there's no
ambiguity because the reference and its target *as authored* are both
conrefed, so a conref processor can reliably rewrite both the original ID
and the reference to it to ensure they are unique in the using context.

Cheers,

Eliot

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