Having an issue with keys in some bookmeta elements of bookmaps

[BobbyG66]

I recently started using conkeyrefs for some of our variable terms.
I am now trying to use them for some bookmeta content in bookmaps, but ran into an issue.
It seems like you cannot use them in the

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<postalcode>

and

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<contactnumber>

elements.

Is there a solution or workaround to this?
I tried conrefs, but they are not allowed either.

Thanks
BG66

[Radu]

Hi,

I tried to validate with both the DITA 1.2 DTDs and the DITA 1.3 DTDs a bookmap structure like this:

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<bookmap id="taskbook">

    <booktitle>

        <booklibrary>Retro Tools</booklibrary>

        <mainbooktitle>Product tasks</mainbooktitle>

        <booktitlealt>Tasks and what they can do</booktitlealt>

    </booktitle>

    <bookmeta>

        <author>Howe Tuduit</author>

        <authorinformation>

            <organizationinfo>

                <addressdetails><locality><postalcode conkeyref="..."/></locality></addressdetails>

                <contactnumbers>

                    <contactnumber conkeyref="..."/>

                </contactnumbers>

            </organizationinfo>

        </authorinformation>
 

and the @conkeyref attribute seemed to be allowed on both postalcode and contactnumber.
Are you using a specialization of the DITA standard?
Could you give me an example with how your DITA Map looks like?

Regards,
Radu

[BobbyG66]

Radu,

We may have some customization's, will have to check that.
The problem may be the way we are using the conkyref's.
We are inserting a <term> element to the <postalcode> element, where it looks like you are adding the conkeyref to the <postalcode> element.

When I try your method, I get a

Conref was not expanded

error message.

The source element "postalcode" with class value "+ topic/ph xnal-d/postalcode " is not a generalization of target element "term" with class value "- topic/term "

Here is our code:

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    <bookmeta>

        <authorinformation>

            <organizationinfo>

                <namedetails>

                    <organizationnamedetails>

                        <organizationname><term

                                conkeyref="r_brandnames_variables/ph_organizationname"

                            /></organizationname>

                    </organizationnamedetails>

                </namedetails>

                <addressdetails>

                    <thoroughfare><term conkeyref="r_brandnames_variables/ph_thoroughfare"

                        /></thoroughfare>

                    <locality>

                        <localityname><term conkeyref="r_brandnames_variables/ph_localityname"/>

                        </localityname>

                        <postalcode>12345</postalcode>

                    </locality>

                    <administrativearea><term

                            conkeyref="r_brandnames_variables/ph_administrativearea"/>

                    </administrativearea>

                </addressdetails>

[Radu]

Hi,

Thanks for the details.
Actually the particular error message you receive means that you have a postalcode element with a conkeyref which points to a term element located in another topic. These elements are not compatible. You cannot make a conkeyref from "term" to "postalcode" or from "postalcode" to "term".
Usually with DITA you can make a conkeyref or conref from one type element to the same type of element. So you can make a conref from a <term> to a <term>. You can also make a conref from a generalization of an element to a particularization of an element. So you can make a conref for example from a <ph> element to a <b> element. The <ph> element has the DITA class - topic/ph and <b> has the class + topic/ph hi-d/b meaning that bold is a specialization of phrase so you can conref from phrase to bold.

Regards,
Radu

[BobbyG66]

Thanks Radu!

I was not able to get it to work with a conkeyref on the postalcode element, but did get it to work by inserting a <keyword> element inside the <postalcode> element.
I applied the conkeyref to the <keyword> element.

BG66