There are so many nifty options included in XXE ... I'll experiment. Thanks for 
the information!

N

-----Original Message-----
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: woensdag 17 mei 2017 12:46
To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Cc: '[email protected]'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [XXE] speculative question about xref output

On 05/17/2017 10:45 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> Migrating another elderly document to DITA yesterday prompts a new
> question ... I've found and used the conversion parameter "show xref
> page", but I can already imagine places where it would not be quite
> enough. Consider a task topic that uses <xref> elements both for
> references to step numbers and for references to other topics: showing
> page numbers in /Repeat steps 2 on page 1 to 5 on page 1/ is not
> reader-friendly, but page numbers in /See also Section 4.8 on page 16/
> make the cross-reference a lot more usable.
>
>
>
> Restructuring the information and using the Related links concept to
> replace in-line xrefs might not be a bad way to go - but finer control
> over the formatting of xref output would be a help. I realise I've
> been spoilt by years of working with FrameMaker :-}
>
>

With parameter:

number=all

and parameter:

xref-auto-text="number text"

(see
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__xref-auto-text
; default value: "number")

and parameter:

show-xref-page=yes

(see
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__show-xref-page
; default value "no")

you can already get in the generated PDF:
---
you cannot specify them in an XSLT stylesheet which customizes the stock ones 
(as explained in Part II, Chapter 9, Section 2. Customizing the look of the PDF 
files generated by ditac on page 63).
---

for this DITA source:
---
you cannot specify them in an XSLT stylesheet which customizes the stock ones 
(as explained in <xref href="customAttributeSet.dita"/>).
---

Notice empty <xref>.

Note that "customAttributeSet.dita" is part of a bookmap and has a "section" 
role.

Similar parameters exist for <link> elements.





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