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[Anthony Self]

Hi Eliot On the DITA Help Subcommittee, we've been discussing a metadata element to contain context hooks for context-sensitive user assistance (Help) applications. The element (we're calling it ua-context) might be defined in either the map or the topic. We've realised we have a need for an attribute to specify whether a context hook in the map takes precedence over a hook in the topic, as we could envisage scenarios where either would be a user requirement. Our first cut of the name for this attribute was @yield-to-topic, which would only be used in the map topicref topicmeta. The default would be false, meaning the map trumps the topic. An example of mark-up within a map's topicref topicmeta might be: