[oXygen-user] Automatically add @type when a topicref is added to a DITA map

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Hello Yves,

I consider that it's more flexible not to add the @type value when a 
topic ref is inserted.
In this way, if the type of the referenced topic changes (it was a task 
and then you change it to be a concept) then you do not need to remember 
to also update the <topicref>.
What is your usecase? Do you have a CMS which requires the @type to be 
added?

The DITA 1.2 specs is very vague:

> When a referencing element is first added to or updated in a document, DITA aware editors may, but are not required to, set the type attribute value based on the actual type of a referenced DITA topic.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 8/16/2012 1:07 PM, Yves Barbion wrote:
> Hi group
>
> When I add a topicref to a DITA map, I see that the @type attribute is
> left unspecified. It would be nice if the @type attribute would then
> automatically be filled in, depending on the information type of the
> topic. For example, when I add a topicref to a task topic, the @type
> attribute would automatically be type="task".
>
> Is this possible or is this a new feature request?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Yves Barbion
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