Re: Find all cross-references to a certain target

[DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a way to solve this problem in structured documents by adding an 
attribute.

In your EDD, the cross-reference element (let's say its name is "Xref") is 
declared to be of type Cross Reference having an IDREF attribute. But you 
may also specify additional attributes. One possibility is to define an 
attribute (named, for instance, "Target") of type "string". Then, when 
creating each cross-reference, the user enters a descriptive phrase (e.g., 
"Beer and Pizza") which describes the content of the cross-reference's 
"target". If your DTD does not define this attribute, your read/write rules 
can specify that, on export, this attribute is dropped. For example, if the 
attribute is named "Target", the read/write rules for  cross-reference 
element "Xref" would include:
     element "Xref" {
         is fm cross-reference element "Xref";
                 fm attribute "Target" drop;
}

With this setup, you can now do a FrameMaker search for all occurrences of 
attribute Target having a value of "Beer and Pizza", and find all instances 
of the cross-reference element having that value in the Target attribute.


FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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