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RE: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

  • 1.  RE: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

    Posted 09-28-2009 20:34
    I went back and checked the Arbortext 5.4 release (our current release)
    which uses the preliminary DITA 1.2 DTDs and XSDs and adding a domains
    attribute construction such as w(...) to allow the declaration of weak
    constraints won't cause any problems.  Of course we just ignore the new
    construct at this point, but since we haven't implemented DITA 1.2
    constraint checking on conrefs, all constraints are "weak".
    
    As I said in a previous note, if our Specialization Validation function
    encounters the new w(...) construct, it will flag it as an error with
    the message:
    
    	Domain attribute value at "xxxx" is improperly formatted
    
    But this validation is only done upon request, the error can be safely
    ignored, and in some future release we can update things so w(...) isn't
    flagged as an error.
    
       -Jeff
    
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