RE: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

["Ann Rockley" <rockley@rockley.com>]

While not strictly related to DITA, when I teach the concepts of reuse, I
use source for the original content to be reused and target for the place in
which the content will be reused.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kristen James Eberlein [mailto:keberlein@pobox.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:22 PM
To: ekimber
Cc: Ogden, Jeff; tself@hyperwrite.com; dita
Subject: Re: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

I'm glad that Tony brought this up. The DITA spec -- and other 
documentation -- is inconsistent about this.About 50% follows Tony's 
definition of source and target, and another 50% uses the opposite 
construction.

Personally, it make sense to me that "source" contains the actual 
content -- the content that gets pulled or pushed into else where (the 
"target"), but I'd really like to know if this contradicts some formal 
definition of source and target ....

Kris

ekimber wrote:
> On 9/29/09 8:25 PM, "Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've been using the terms "source" and "target" in just the opposite
>> way, but I don't think there is a right and a wrong here. I'm not sure
>> what terms to use to avoid ambiguity.
>>     
>
> I also use source to mean the element specifying the @conref attribute and
> target to mean the element(s) addressed by the @conref attribute.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
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