.... > > You *probably* correctly understood the *general* *idea* of the spec. > The problem lies in the words: probably, general, idea. When some areas > of a spec are not crystal clear, lack examples, have no conformance > tests and there are no third-party books about the spec, you simply > cannot expect the implementor (XMLmind) to be fully compliant with this > spec. > > Now you can say: the DITA Open Toolkit works like this or works like > that. The problem is that our work is not based on the behavior of the > DITA OT. (By doing that, we would have reproduced its bugs as well as > its correct behavior.) Our work is based on the spec and on common sense. > > I suggest that you post a message to a DITA group (we never do that > because it is too time consuming) in order to confirm what you suspect. > If you get this confirmation, then we'll try to adapt ditac.
I think this is not so important feature and you wouldn't adapt ditac. Only if many clients wil request this feature from you. Thanks.

