Query on key referencing element's @processing-role

Hi All,

 

Setting the context for my question, I am copy pasting some
text from the specifications.

"The attributes that are common to a key definition
element and a key reference element using that key, other than the @keys and
@id attributes, are combined as for content references, including the special
processing for the @xml:lang, @dir, and @translate attributes."

 

The keydefs when inserted have the @processing-role set to
default "resource-only". When I insert a topicref using the key
defined above because of attribute combining the topicref's processing-role
would also be set to as "resource-only" which is not what the user's
intention might be when inserting this topicref.

 

Wouldn't it be a right idea to include @processing-role as
well to the exclude list of attributes in the attribute combining process.

 

Regards,

Nakshatra