Re: [dita] Presence of @id affects processing?

[ekimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 10/28/09 5:27 PM, "seth.park@freescale.com" <seth.park@freescale.com>
wrote:

> The 1.1 lang spec for <fn/> says that the presence of the ID attribute on
> <fn/> affects how the footnote is rendered. Is that true?
>  
> If so, I think we need to mention it in the ID attribute section of the
> archspec. I'm imagining a tool vendor providing an option to "automatically
> generate IDs", not knowing that the presence of the ID attribute has
> processing implications.

I think fn is the only one.

If an <fn> has an ID, then it does not directly generate a callout, but must
be referenced by <fnref>.

It makes some kind of twisted sense but it is a bit of an odd rule.

I don't think there are any other elements for which the use of @id has a
similar effect.

Cheers,

Eliot


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