Re: [dita] Under-specification for @refcol?

[Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein@pobox.com>]

Actually, I responded to Toshihiko Makita's observation that the "refcol 
attribute description is very unclear for me. And there seems no 
implementation that use this attribute in DITA-OT."

I vaguely remembered that the internal IBM documentation stated that 
this attribute was not currently in use, and posted that as a response 
to the list.

It'd be easy to state as much in the 1.2 documentation ...

Kris

Don Day wrote:
> In dita-users list this week
> (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/15537), Kristen made
> the observation that the DITA 1.1 specification for simpletable's @refcol
> attribute gives very little insight into how it should be implemented. It
> appears that the original intent at the time might have anticipated the
> "associative linking" thoughts that have since matured as the keyref
> processing specification. Can anyone recall whether we've had previous
> discussion for this attribute that needs to be reviewed and added into the
> edits for DITA 1.2?
>
> Regards,
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> Don Day
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