A client wants to be able to use terms defined in a glossary by reference where they are mentioned. In reviewing the glossary support markup I don't see any direct solution other than using
W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > In reviewing the glossary support markup I don't see any direct solution > other than using
Hi Eliot - > The only other solution I could think of was to use xref to point to the > glossentry topic with the expectation that the rendered result of the > xref is the glossterm value (which I guess is what you might get by > default since glossterm specializes title. Hmmm. Yes, this would work, and would probably be the best way to pull in a term if you also want a link. Otherwise, I think conref is the only way to reuse a term with DITA 1.1. I know there are at least two proposals on the table for 1.2 that may provide an easier way to reuse the term. One is Issue 40 for keyref: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/13757/IssueNumber40.html The other is Issue 43 for semantic or implicit linking: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15122/IssueNumber43.html Thanks- Robert D Anderson IBM Authoring Tools Development Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787 "W. Eliot Kimber"
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