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Re: [dita] clarifying the href attribute in the language reference

From: Erik Hennum <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:48:00 -0000

Hi, Eliot, Paul, and TC: Should the rephrase bring out these main points: * The value of a DITA href is a URI. * A URI without a hash resolves to the top element in the file except where the top element is a <dita> element and the reference must resolve to a single topic, in which case the URI resolves to the first contained topic. * A URI with a hash must have a valid DITA local identifier as the portion after the hash. A DITA local identifier consists of topicID/elementID for a subelement of a topic and of elementID for topics, maps, and map subelements. As long as we're nailing down the description of href, are there any special considerations having to do with IRIs [1]? I wouldn't expect so, but I have a shallow understanding of IRIs and translation issues in general. Hoping that's useful, Erik Hennum [email protected] [1]. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987 "Eliot Kimber" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/16/2007 12:24:12 PM: > > What is actually the case is that *non-topic element targets* use > *non-standard* fragment identifier syntax (the overall syntax of the URI > conforms to the URI spec since the URI spec itself does not specify the > details of fragment identifiers).