It should be addressed somewhere.
paul
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> From: Don Day [mailto:]
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> To: Michael Priestley
> Cc: ; Grosso, Paul
> Subject: Re: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic
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> Does this point need to be addressed in the 1.1 version of
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> Spec shortdesc description, or in the Arch Spec as a general
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> issue that applies to the new abstract/shortdesc definition?
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> Regards,
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> Don Day
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> "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
> Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
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> If I recall correctly the decision was to concatenate them.
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> Michael Priestley
> IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
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> In DITA 1.1, it appears that you can have more than
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> If there are multiple shortdescs in an abstract,
> what do you do with them all? Use the first?
> Combine them somehow? If you need to override a
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