Nice.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:31 PM
> To: dita
> Subject: [dita] Should We Refine the Rules for Filename
> Generation for @chunk?
>
> The current 2nd review draft says this in the ArchSpec topic
> on Chunking:
>
> -----
> When creating new documents via chunk processing, the storage
> object name or identifier (if relevant) is determined as follows:
>
> - If an entire map is used to generate a single chunk (by
> placing to-content on the map element), the name is taken
> from the name of the map.
> From the copy-to attribute, if the copy-to attribute is specified.
>
> - If copy-to is not specified and the by-topic policy is in
> effect, the name is taken from the id attribute of the topic.
>
> - If copy-to is not speified[sic] and the by-document policy
> is in effect, the name is taken from the name of the
> referenced document.
> ----
>
> However, with keys, I think it would make sense to use the
> first or only key defined by the chunking topicref if there
> is one or, if the topicref uses keyref, the key referenced.
>
> That is, keys serve to define a map-global namespace of uses
> of topics and it would make sense to take advantage of those
> names in the chunk case, in preference to a topic's ID, which
> is not necessarily unique in any context beyond its own
> document (and in my data sets, is almost never unique).
>
> That is, given this topicref:
>
> <topicref
> keys="use-one-of-topic-x"
> href="topic-x.dita"
> chunk="to-content"
> >
> ...
> </topicref>
>
> I would expect the generated filename of the chunk to be
> "use-one-of-topic-x.dita".
>
> Likewise, if I have this topicref:
>
> <topicref keyref="use-one-of-topic-x"
> chunk="to-content"
> >
> ...
> </topicref>
>
> I would expect the generated filename to reflect the referenced key.
>
> Thus I propose to amend the above by adding new second and
> third bullets:
>
> - If @keys is specified, the name is taken from the first key
> name in the @keys value.
>
> - If @keyref is specified, the name is taken from the key
> name specified by @keyref.
>
> These two additions would effectively make the use of keys an
> implicit @copy-to when using @chunk.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
> --
> Eliot Kimber
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