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[Robert Anderson]

Hi Jeff, My thoughts on the topicref/topichead/topicgroup item are as follows, subject to discussion - * A topichead without navtitle is an error condition * A topicgroup with a navtitle is an error condition (can be warned about or the title may be ignored) * A topicref with no navtitle, href, keyref is functionally the same as a topicgroup * A topicref with a navtitle but no href or keyref is functionally the same as a topichead That's based on a combination of my memory of how those elements were defined, how I know some processing works, and how I know some people author their maps or specializations. Currently, I think most tools don't actually check for topichead or for topicgroup because the behaviors match. The change here would be that if you do actually use one of those in the error conditions, processors are expected to do something different than they would for the base topicref. I don't think this would change any behaviors for base topicref or other topicref specializations. Does that make sense? Robert D Anderson IBM Authoring Tools Development Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit (507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787 (Good Monday & Thursday) "Ogden, Jeff"