Re: [dita] Re: [dita-comment] Why does <topichead> allow the "copy-to" attribute on it?

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

I believe the intent for this was that the file name specified on copy-to
should be used to generate a stub topic with the navigation title (in
output formats where that makes sense). Some tools already provide an
option to generate stub topics for headings, so this allows those tools to
generate a topic with a stable file name.

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/)



From:	Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>
To:	Radu Coravu <radu_coravu@sync.ro>, DITA TC
            <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	11/28/2012 07:47
Subject:	[dita] Re: [dita-comment] Why does <topichead> allow the
            "copy-to" attribute on it?
Sent by:	<dita@lists.oasis-open.org>



Hi, Radu.

I am forwarding this to the DITA TC list for discussion.

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
Co-chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Charter member, OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

On 11/28/2012 2:01 AM, Radu Coravu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The specification says that <topichead> allows the copy-to attribute
> on it:
>
>>
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/topichead.html#topichead

>>
>
> Why so? The topichead does not point to a certain resource, it is just
> an empty node in the TOC hierarchy.
> The DITA OT processing throws a NPE when the copy-to attribute is set
> on the <topichead>.
>
> Regards,
> Radu
>
> Radu Coravu
> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>


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