Pushing a title into topics

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Subject: Pushing a title into topics




From: Robert D Anderson <>
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:29:49 -0500








Some of you may have seen this come up on the dita-users list earlier
today...

In DITA maps, the general behavior is that navtitle attribute values are
ignored for processing - the current title is pulled from the referenced
topic. This behavior can be changed so that the title is locked. There is
no way to do the opposite - to push a title from the map into a topic.

Within IBM, we've gotten around this with a map domain and a processing
override. The domain has two override elements; when these are specified,
the title and/or shortdesc are pushed into the topic. The overrideTitle
element is specialized from linktext (though coming off of <navtitle> will
be preferred with DITA 1.2); overrideShortdesc comes off of shortdesc. If
the original linktext or shortdesc elements are used, the normal behavior
is used.

Requests for this type of behavior have come up several times - could we
consider standardizing such a domain for DITA 1.2? Do others have alternate
methods for accomplishing the same thing?

Thanks-

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
(507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787