Thanks. Your solution works: >In the above example, please specify each ><topicref> in a different <relcell> and you'll see that links between >topic1.dita, topic2.dita and topic3.dita will be automatically generated >by ditac. Note that the linking="targetonly" attribute set on >topic3.dita will be honored.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]>wrote: > On 06/22/2011 03:47 PM, Darren Carlton wrote: > > We've been using relationship tables to define links between task > > topics, but the ditac limitations documentation says this isn't > > supported. How do other people define links between topics of the same > type? > > No, using relationship tables to define links between topics is quite > well supported. (In fact, it's the only raison d'être of <reltable>s.) > See below. > > > > > > For example, we have something like this: > > > > <reltable> > > <relheader> > > <relcolspec type="task"/> > > <relcolspec type="reference"/> > > <relcolspec type="concept"/> > > </relheader> > > <relrow> > > <relcell collection-type="family"> > > <topicref href="topic1.dita"/> > > <topicref href="topic2.dita"/> > > <topicref href="topic3.dita" linking="targetonly"/> > > </relcell> > > <relcell/> > > <relcell/> > > </relrow> > > > > But http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/limitations.htmlsays > > this isn't supported: > > "Attribute collection-type, whatever its value, is ignored inside > > the reltable element." > > > > The collection-type attribute is indeed ignored in <reltables>. The > reason for this limitation is: > > [1] The laziness of yours truly. > > [2] While we managed to understand --more or less-- the meaning of this > attribute for a hierarchy of <topicref>s, we failed to do so in the > context of a <reltable>. > > This does not mean that you cannot use relationship tables to define > links between topics. In the above example, please specify each > <topicref> in a different <relcell> and you'll see that links between > topic1.dita, topic2.dita and topic3.dita will be automatically generated > by ditac. Note that the linking="targetonly" attribute set on > topic3.dita will be honored. > > > --- > PS: The type attribute of <relcolspec> is ignored too. To our > knowledge, this just means that we do not generate text such as "Related > tasks", "Related reference", "Related concepts". We always generate: > "Related information". > >
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