importance="optional" for li ?

[DrStrangelove]

We recently converted our content to Dita. Some of our tasks correctly use steps/step but many are still using ul/li. We eventually intend to convert them but that cannot be completed in the available timeframe.

We want optional steps to be labelled as "Optional:" regardless of whether the importance is on the step or on the li.

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<li importance="optional">Do this.</li>

importance="optional" is valid for li. I added the following to the style sheet, but the output does not include the label. How can I get this to work?

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li[importance="optional"]:before {

    content: "Optional: ";

    font-weight: bold;

}

[Costin]

Hi DrStrangelove,

Setting the importance="optional" attribute on the <li/> does not affect the output, as the attribute is not passed to the class appropriate for list entries.
Therefore, the solution would be to set the outputclass attribute to "optional" instead.
Specifically, in your documents, you should use something like:

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<li outputclass="optional">Do this.</li>

In the output, this would translate in

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<li class="li optional">Do this.</li>

, so you could just filter the optional list entries from CSS.

Regards,
Costin

[DrStrangelove]

Thank you!