Feedback on navtitle from dita-users

We use it unwillingly in two ways.

(1) The editor that we use shows the navtitle attribute value when you collapse the graphical representation of the tag, but will not show the element value. We never lock the titles, so this is an authoring convenience only.

(2) In key definitions for non-local linking, we've had to use the navtitle attribute alongside the linktext element to cover xref, link, and reltable. For PDF, the attribute is required for reltable-based targets. For everything else (link or xref in PDF and everything in non-PDF), the linktext element works. See DITA OT issue 1439 in GitHub. Sorry, don't have the link on my phone.

Megan Bock

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On Feb 19, 2018, at 11:12 AM, nlpaisner84@alumni.amherst.edu [dita-users] <dita-users@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

The DITA Technical Committee has deprecated the use of the @navtitle attribute ever since the <navtitle> element was added in DITA 1.2. Now, as work for DITA 2.0 is underway, there is a proposal to remove the @navtitle attribute from DITA. A main goal for DITA 2.0 is to reduce DITA's complexity by removing redundant or unnecessary/unused elements/attributes that have been deprecated in past releases. But before removing @navtitle, we want to make sure that its removal won't create widespread problems for DITA users.

So, are you using the @navtitle attribute in your DITA implementation, despite its deprecated status? Were you using it before it was deprecated? How difficult would it be to switch from using @navtitle to using <navtitle>? Some of the reasons for the creation of the navtitle element, and deprecation of @navtitle, were 1) users' needs to get the content translated (attribute values do not get translated) and 2) the need to occasionally use rich text, rather than plain text, in a navtitle.

If you have thoughts about @navtitle and <navtitle>, and an opinion either supporting or opposing the removal of @navtitle, please let us know by responding to this post.

Thanks,

Nancy Harrison

DITA Technical Committee

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Posted by: Megan Bock <mebock@gmail.com>

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