RE: [dita] DITA Processing Model

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:59 AM
> To: Paul Prescod
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [dita] DITA Processing Model
> 
> ...
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> In terms of keeping intermediate files DITA-compliant, we 
> have tried to do so as much as possible, though I do not 
> think it is required. To that end, one of the things we do is 
> adjust IDs that are pulled in by conref, so that they do not 
> conflict with IDs in the current topic. This is important for 
> later steps that retrieve cross reference text, and might 
> otherwise have to choose between multiple copies of the same 
> ID. For example, you may have a cross reference to a table 
> with id="info". If you use conref to pull in a paragraph or a 
> list item with id="info", then your cross reference of 
> "#topic/info" will actually be pointing to both.

Does this mean that it is impossible with the DITA toolkit to
cross-reference to an element included by CONREF?

E.g.

Doc1.xml:
...
<foo id="foo">
 <bar if="bar"/>
</foo>
...

Doc2.xml: 

<foo conref="Doc1.xml#foo"/>

Would Doc2.xml#topicID/bar work or not?

Whatever your answer, do you think that the answer is derivable from the
DITA spec or only through inspection of the toolkit code?

 Paul Prescod