Hi Frank,

Please see some remarks below:

I understand that the "type" and "format" attributes are required or at least a good practice for "topicref" elements.

From what I've experienced along these years, most end users who want these attributes to be added automatically are usually the ones migrating from Framemaker or using both Oxygen and Framemaker on the same set of DITA files.

My general best practice for these attributes would be:

1) For the "type" attribute, never set it on any link or topicref as the publishing engine will infer it from the target.

2) For the "format" attribute, Oxygen by default sets it on references to DITA Maps and non-DITA topics, but when referencing DITA topics, the @format attribute is not set automatically as it's default value when not set is "dita".

When I insert a new dita resource into a ditamap (i.e. a new topic or map which I create and insert in one go), oXygen should add these attributes automatically. I have set the options under "Options > Preferences > DITA > Maps" accordingly.

However, only "format" attributes are set, "type" attributes are not set although I have checked both options.

I tested and indeed, if in the DITA Maps Manager I insert a reference to an existing topic file, the attributes are automatically added, but if I use for example the contextual action "Append child->New" to create a topic and insert a reference to it, then indeed the attributes are not set on the topicref. Is this close to how you are doing things on your side?

I added an internal issue to look into fixing this problem on our side, adding the issue ID below for future reference:

    EXM-52131 DITA Maps Manager creating new topic does not automatically add type and format attributes to topicref

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

Hi list,

I understand that the "type" and "format" attributes are required or at least a good practice for "topicref" elements.

When I insert a new dita resource into a ditamap (i.e. a new topic or map which I create and insert in one go), oXygen should add these attributes automatically. I have set the options under "Options > Preferences > DITA > Maps" accordingly.

However, only "format" attributes are set, "type" attributes are not set although I have checked both options.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

I use oXygen V25.

Regards,

Frank

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