Open issues in DocBook transclusion proposal

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Hi,

as per my action item from the latest teleconference I'm sending list of
issues which are to my knowledge still open in transclusion proposal
together with proposed resolutions.

1. When the profiling is applied?

Effectivity attributes can be specified both on def and ref elements.
Someone pointed out that in DITA something like this was underspecified
and could lead to different results depending on the mutual order of
transclusion and profiling processing. For now I can't think of such
example from the top of my head. So my current thinking is that for def
and ref elements we should say that effective are only those ones that
satisfy profiling conditions and that profiling applies after
transclusion (this is necessary for effectivity attributes used on
elements inside <def>.).

2. Should be definitionfile attribute supported on external definition file?

E.g. if definition from particular file is requested

<ref definitionfile="definitions.001.xml" name="corp-name"/>

should be this definition file allowed to reference additional
definition file.

I think that this should be supported in order to have unified
processing model for definition element appearing inside DocBook
document and appearing as a standalone XML document.

3. Should be there option to preserve original IDs (without
prefix) in output (e.g. HTML anchors) when adding prefixes during ID fixup?

I think that this not necessary and that this shouldn't be specified as
a part of transclusion process.

4. Should be multiple file references allowed in definitionfile attribute?

I think that this is not necessary. Multiple definition elements with
definitionfile attribute can be used in DocBook document to achieve same
result. There is probably no strong requirement for referencing multiple
other definitions from external definition file where multiple
definition elements can't be used.

5. Should be ref allowed inside def?

I think that yes. But resolving process should precisely define this and
circular references should be prohibited.

Comments welcomed!

			Jirka



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