Making good progress converting a data dictionary from unmanageable single
Word file into manageable DITA topics, but I've hit a small snag: I've been
advised that collection-type="family" is the way to generate links between
topics at the same level, but I haven't managed to make this work yet.
(even after checking DITA Support in the documentation set)
Here's the code for my tiny test-map. I've included the collection-type
attribute, but generating web-help from the map just gives me topic pages
for the four bsermsg topics and not a link in sight: what I was hoping for
was sibling links.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Map//EN"
"map.dtd">
<map id="um42hp84">
<title>Aardvark Specifications and Data Dictionary 2.8</title>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs.dita">
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs_01.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs_02.dita">
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs_03.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs_04.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs_05.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bs_06.dita"/>
</topicref>
<topicref collection-type="family" href="avk_freq_bs_07.dita">
<topicref href="avk_freq_bsermsg_01.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bsermsg_02.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bsermsg_03.dita"/>
<topicref href="avk_freq_bsermsg_04.dita"/>
</topicref>
</topicref>
</map>
My manager is already impressed with the new web-help version; it would be
satisfying to be able to enrich the navigation with these sibling links.
Thanks in advance for guidance and advice!
N
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