Design for item

What user need will be met by this feature?

Users can use @conref combined with @conrefend to refer to a range of sibling elements and pull them into the specified location.

What is the technical design for the change

In conrefImpl.xsl, when the target of @conref is processed, the code first copy or proceed all @* attributes of target elements and then use apply-templates on its sub-nodes. After that we need to add the code to check whether @conrefend is valid and proceed the elements in the conref range. Since the template to proceed conref target doesn't know whether there is @conrefend at conref source, the value of @conrefend should be passed as parameter.
Here is the current template to proceed conref-target in conrefImpl.xsl with update comments in bold

<xsl:template match="*" mode="conref-target">

**************** We need to add a parameter here to accept the value of @conrefend. The default value is #none# which means that there is no @conrefend ***************************

  <xsl:param name="WORKDIR"/>
  <xsl:param name="conref-source-topicid"/>
  <xsl:param name="conref-ids"/>
  <xsl:param name="source-element"/>
  <xsl:param name="current-relative-path"/> <!-- File system path from original file to here -->
  <xsl:param name="conref-filename"/>
.......calculate topic id and element id..........

   <!-- If for some bizarre reason you conref to another element that uses @conref, forget the original and continue here. -->

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="@conref">
.......proceed @conref of the conref target.........
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:for-each select="@*">
            .......proceed every @* attribute.........
        </xsl:for-each>
       
        <!-- Continue processing this element as any other -->
        <xsl:apply-templates select="*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
          ......apply templates on sub-nodes.......
        </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>

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Here we need to add the logic to proceed @conrefend if the value of @conrefend is sent to this template as variable.

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</xsl:template>

What sections of the toolkit will be impacted by the change?

The change will impact conref resolution xslt script.

See also

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