On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote:
> Eliot Kimber wrote:
> ---
> In the case where every topic is the root of its own document, the topic
> ID can be the same *for every topic*. To make this point I have standard
> practice of using the value "topicid" for the IDs of all my root topics.
> There is absolutely no need to generate unique topic IDs for
> document-root topics as a matter of standard practice.
> ---
>
> We understand this and we agree that the DITA standard allows to do this
> (though we'll *never* do this for our own documents, because this really
> looks and feels like a dirty trick).
>
I don't want to delve into issues of style/taste. As we're learning DITA we
were very disappointed to find that xref uses both a file name and a
topic-level id tag. We're planning to use keyrefs to work around this (file
names in xrefs are just many kinds of evil). Unfortunately, when I tried
keyrefs a while ago, XMLMind ditac didn't seem to support them. At the time
we needed to move on with our DITA work and I didn't save my keyref
examples. (also, see below.)
Even if this was a bug, it cannot be fixed without a major rewrite of
> XMLmind DITA Converter. We currently do not plan to rewrite XMLmind DITA
> Converter in the near future.
>
Understood. Thank you for the clarification.
We'll of course document this idiosyncrasy. We apologize for the
> inconvenience. We would understand very well if you decided to stop
> using our product.
>
This isn't a huge deal.
As I mentioned above, we'd like to move to using keyrefs anyways.
We are in the (internal) process of purchasing licenses, so I understand if
you'd prefer to defer further support issues/queries until the licenses are
in place. We appreciate how helpful you and XMLMind have been to our issues
so far.
Thank you,
-Doug
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