Kazuko O. wrote:
In the DITA bookmap file, xxe allows the designation of topic files that use
same topic ID.
XXE does this because this is not only allowed by the DITA spec, but it
is also customary to do so.
I've even seen well-known DITA consultants write that they don't care
about the topic ID and that they always set it to "topic" (after
recommending to always create each topic in its own file).
Even if running the "Check Map", we do not receive any errors.
This is not a bug. This is normal with DITA. See "2.3.1 ID attribute",
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata01/os/complete/part2-tech-content/archSpec/base/id.html#id
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...
The requirements for the @id attribute differ depending on whether it is
used on a topic element, a map element, or an element within a topic or map.
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The @id attributes for topic and map elements are declared as XML
attribute type ID; therefore, they must be unique with respect to other
XML IDs within the XML document that contains the topic or map element.
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Notice "unique within the XML document that contains the topic element".
Just that, nothing more.
Same topic ID usage in multiple topic files is critical error depending on the
publication systems.
Please report this as a bug of your publication system. (Needless to say
that our XMLmind DITA Converter -- http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/ -- does
not have this problem.)
Would it be possible for you that future xxe detects duplicated topic IDs usage
in the topic files
referenced in the bookmap file?
I'm sorry but the answer is no because doing so this would introduce a
severe bug in XXE.
What you want is in fact enforce a business rule which is specific to
your organization.
Using a Schematron for your DITA *map* to check this is probably
possible, but this may cause saving maps in XXE very slow.
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