Thanks, Hussein.
The conref mechanism works fine:
<reltable conref="TS_EX_reltable.ditamap#TS__EX" />
I'm guessing that the paths in the included reltable have to be valid for
the location of the top-level map (unlike map transclusion, where the
second-level maps can be in sub-folders).
Sometimes it seems that DITA has more mechanisms than it needs :-) You're
right at this stage to ignore aspects that are unclear or unnecessary.
One reason why I wanted the reltables separate is that I'm thinking about
generating them using an XQuery, based on keywords, perhaps. So I could then
associate each Training Session having keyword "array", with any Exercise
having the same keyword (and similarly for Reference topics). Since it's
easy to generate sub-maps for individual folders, this would mean that only
the top-level map would have to be constructed manually.
regards
/Roy MacLean
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We don't know. You are using the transclusion of maps which is not
really specified by the spec. See Transclusion of maps in
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/limitations.html
* What you did would have worked if TS_EX_reltable.ditamap contained at
least a topicref in addition to the reltable.
* It's also possible to transclude a reltable using conref. Unlike the
transclusion of maps, transclusion by the means of conref is very
clearly specified.
We currently don't know if we are going to support in a future version
of ditac the transclusion of maps containing only reltables. If you are
really interested, you'll have to convince us to do it.
