abbreviated-form and keyref

[gbv34]

The abbreviated-form element used with

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<abbreviated-form keyref=""/>

is pretty handy to display description from a glossary term. It offers information when hovering a link provided through a keyref and a link to the term definition on a specific topic. However, when clicking a link to a term topic, I noticed I can't choose to open a new window

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target="_blank"

or to be redirected within the current window. My issue is the following, is there any way to customize the target for a keyref used with the abbreviated form?

From my research, the abbrev-domain.xsl contains a relevant template with:

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  <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,' abbrev-d/abbreviated-form ')]" name="topic.abbreviated-form">
    <xsl:variable name="keys" select="@keyref"/>
    <xsl:variable name="target" select="key('id', substring(@href, 2))[1]" as="element()?"/>
    ...

Has anyone already met this need?

[chrispitude]

Hi Gaspard,

Which transformation type are you using for output?

- Chris

[gbv34]

Hi Chris,
I'm currently using html5 transtype.

[Radu]

Hi Gaspard,

From what I remember we have not had similar requests in the past. But indeed probably something like this can be done with an XSLT customization.
If your question is in general for the DITA XML community, you could try to ask on the DITA Users List:
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Regards,
Radu