Re: [dita] Intent of <author> as a link

[Robert D Anderson <robander@us.ibm.com>]

I do not know of any internal usage, but there could be one that I simply
haven't seen. I am pretty sure the href attribute was added originally for
the reasons you suggest - to provide a reference to more information about
the author. I think that the other linking attributes were added more
recently under the proposal that made sure anything with @href also took
scope/type/format.

Michael Priestley may have a more solid memory about why @href was added
there, but if so he'll have to speak up when he is back in the office.

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit

Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com> wrote on 01/04/2010 02:01:29 PM:

> [dita] Intent of <author> as a link
>
> I noticed, perhaps for the first time, that <author> takes the linking
> attributes (href, keyref, format, scope).
>
> The 12/11/09 draft lang ref entry for author doesn't say anything about
the
> link nature of <author>.
>
> I'm wonder what the general intent is: is it, as I assume, to create a
link
> to some other resource that represents the author in general, e.g., a
> biography entry, author database entry, etc.?
>
> Does IBM, in particular, have an implementation of <author> as a link
that
> can serve as a guide to how it might be used in practice?
>
> This is not a design issue, I'm just looking for background information
on
> the semantic of <author>.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
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