Hi Hussein Thank you for your answer. That's the way, I normally use links 😉
You wrote, that you don't understand how this feature could be used. So I will try, to give you an example, based on my concrete use case. As a software tester, I am writing the release notes for our product. These release notes are wrote in one topic, grouped by categories. for each category, there's a section. As there are many categories, also with many release notes, the topic is very long (much text). In the ditamap I would like to set links directly to the sections. In my opinion, this would have the following advantage. I can scroll in the full document (topic) and navigate via the links at the left (toc). I know, the DITA Standard doesn't allow links from a ditamap directly to sections, but this would be a nice feature for me ;-) Another use case is the following: My ditamap contains topicrefs (as normal) and one or more links to our knowledge base, which are external html- or pdf-files. If I place this links in a separate topic, this works. But the users have to navigate to this topic and then klick on the link in the topic (at the right from the navigation). Some users don't understand, why they must klick more than once ;-) So, that was my use cases. Maybe, this would be an inspiration for the feature. I have found the following solution for me: In the ditamap I place topicheads (alone, representing my external links). After I converted the ditamap, I edit the wh.js in an editor. Works also fine, but is a little more work ;-) Best regards Martin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. November 2020 10:31 An: Schild Martin <martinsch...@opacc.ch> Cc: ditac-support@xmlmind.com Betreff: Re: define external link to PDF file within a ditamap? [WAS: Question about ditamap] Hello, > We are working with XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition 9.4.1 > > Our license number: [UNDISCLOSED] > > > > Now, I have a question about ditamap. > > Is there any possibility to define external links within a ditamap? > > Sometimes it would be very helpful to link directly from a ditamap to a > pdf-file or an external website. > > > > I tried diverse variations of format, href and scope. > > But always when I convert my ditamap to WebHelp, the external links are > missing. > > > > Maybe it don't work. But maybe you have some tip for me. > > I'm sorry but there is currently no way to define external links within a ditamap. This is not implemented because we don't understand how, in practice, this feature could be used. We recommend to add this kind of external links in a topic, generally along with a text describing the purpose of the link. For example: <p>A very short list indeed. See <xref format="pdf" href="sample.pdf" scope="external">PDF</xref>.</p> Generating the web help gives you this: <div class="p">A very short list indeed. See <a class="xref" href="sample.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>.</div> Therefore after converting your DITA map to Web Help, suffice to copy "by hand" (that is, a custom script; the Web Help generator won't do it for you) the PDF file to the directory containing all the generated web help pages to have something which works fine.
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