Roy MacLean wrote: > I've been looking into Ditac for about a month, and I think it's very good. > However, I've run into what seems to be a limitation. > > As far as I can tell from experimenting, and from looking at the source > code, there is no processing of topicrefs with scope="external", either > within a map body or within a reltable. (In the code, there's a test > isLocalTopicRef that seems to exclude these). Is this correct,
There is no bug here. Ditac works as expected. > and if so, why? The DITA spec does not seem to specify how to process topicrefs with scope="external"; and we didn't find anything *useful* (that is, using common sense) to do with such elements. > This is a pity, since one commonly wants to link to non-DITA resources, at > the map level, rather than having xrefs embedded in topic documents. I get > the impression that the Open Toolkit does support this feature. > We don't use the DITA OT as a reference. We only use the DITA 1.1 spec. Please point us to the section of the DITA 1.1 spec explaining how to process topicrefs with scope="external", If there is no such section, please explain which kind of processing you expect. We vaguely see what to do with topicrefs with scope="external" in the reltable and we really don't see what to do with topicrefs with scope="external" in the topicref hierarchy.
