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Re: Which attribute to use for context-sensitive help?
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Tom dot Slee at sybase dot com
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:24:05 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Which attribute to use for context-sensitive help?
- References: <OF869F77EA.BCB3990E-ON85256CAD.000C88FB@sybase.com>
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/ Tom.Slee@sybase.com was heard to say:
| The application calls the help system, supplying a context ID, which is
| mapped to an element in the document. I want to store this mapping in the
| document, and then we can write out what the help system needs. I'd like to
| assign the context ID for an element to an attribute for that element. I
| could use any old attribute, such as "role"
|
| <sect1 id="a-helpful-topic" role="SOME-HELP-CONTEXT-ID">...
|
| My question is, there is no obvious attribute to use for this purpose. Is
| there a conventional choice that I can follow?
What prevents you from using the elements actual ID as it's context ID?
Be seeing you,
norm
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