Next in thread →
Next in month →
RE: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic
It should be addressed in the language spec entries for abstract and shortdesc. My to-do. Michael Priestley IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead http://dita.xml.org/blog/25 "Grosso, Paul" <> 09/26/2006 09:24 AM To "Don Day" <>, Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA cc <> Subject RE: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic It should be addressed somewhere. paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Day [mailto:] > Sent: Monday, 2006 September 25 15:32 > To: Michael Priestley > Cc: ; Grosso, Paul > Subject: Re: [dita] multiple shortdesc in an abstract in a topic > > Does this point need to be addressed in the 1.1 version of > the Language > Spec shortdesc description, or in the Arch Spec as a general > processing > issue that applies to the new abstract/shortdesc definition? > > Regards, > -- > Don Day > Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee > IBM Lead DITA Architect > Email: > 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758 > Phone: +1 512-838-8550 > T/L: 678-8550 > > "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? > Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" > --T.S. Eliot > > > > > Michael Priestley > > <. > > com> > To > "Grosso, Paul" > <> > 09/22/2006 10:13 > cc > PM > > > Subject > Re: [dita] multiple > shortdesc in an > abstract in a topic > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I recall correctly the decision was to concatenate them. > I'm not sure if > we explicitly discussed what would happen in terms of map > overrides of an > abstract with multiple shortdescs, but my vote would be that > the shortdesc > in the map would override any and all shortdescs in the target topic, > rather than trying to pick and choose. > > Michael Priestley > IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead > > http://dita.xml.org/blog/25 > > > > "Grosso, Paul" <> > > > > > > 09/22/2006 07:03 PM > To > > <> > > cc > > > > Subject > [dita] multiple > shortdesc in an > abstract in a > topic > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In DITA 1.1, it appears that you can have more than > one shortdesc in an abstract in a topic. > > 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 > shortdesc in a topic with a shortdesc from a map > (topicmeta), and there is more than one in the topic, > which one do you replace? Or do you replace them all? > > paul > >
Next in thread →
Next in month →