I am using FM 8 on Windows.
I have a structured document where many sections of the document will cross-reference to a table.
Specifically, I have an XRef element with an Idref attribute that will point back to a TableTitle element in the target table.
Nearly all of these work, but every once in a while one of the Idref attribute will be = <no value> and colored red in the Structure View.
The cross reference is correct, I can Alt-Ctrl-click the reference and it will take me to the correct table. But when I export to XML the Idref is empty and my XSLT logic that attempts to follow this reference breaks down because it cannot find the target.
It doesn't seem to matter where I set the target, I can re assign the XRef to point to another table that other Idref have no problem with, and this one still shows <no value>. I can remove the XRef element and add it back in, set up the target and it's still <no value>.
What I have to do is find another XRef element that has a valid Idref, make a copy of that XRef element and attribute, then re-assign that Idref to my desired cross reference target and it will then pick up the correct Id value from the Table Title.
While this works, I am confused as to why Framemaker creates crossreference with <no value> in the first place.
Thanks for any insight!
- Michael