Xref to email address, DOTX063W

[Bob.Conlin]

Hello,
For every occurance of a xref to an email address such as

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<xref href="yourEmail@address.com" format="html"/>

I get an error like

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[java] [DOTX063W][WARN]: It appears that dita file 'yourEmail@address.com' is not referenced by a topicref tag in the ditamap file. Please make sure that 'yourEmail@address.com' is referenced in the ditamap file.The location of this problem was at (File = somefilename.dita, Element = xref:2)

The rendered PDF or HTML files display the link correctly & the links work as expected (opening an email window). What can be done to remove the error?

[Radu]

Hi Bob,

I do not quite reproduce the same behavior.
I'm testing using Oxygen 13.2 + DITA OT 1.5.4.

So building a sample DITA Map with a topic which has a reference like:

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<xref href="yourEmail@address.com" format="html"/>

I obtain no error in the DITA OT console output but clicking the link both in the HTML and PDF outputs does not properly show the mail client.

If I make the reference to be like this:

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<xref href="mailto:yourEmail@address.com" format="html"/>

Then clicking the email reference in the HTML output works as expected.
But the PDF output still does not properly work, from what it seems the PDF output likes more this form:

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<xref href="yourEmail@address.com" format="mail"/>

because it does not try anymore to make the href relative to the referencing topic.

Regards,
Radu

[shilpah123]

Thanks for sharing this. I tried it and the link opens a mail which is what I needed.