Trouble with linked footnotes in DITA content

[Wanda Jane]

I am working on converting unstructured to structured. I have encountered many hurdles, but the latest has to do with a series of footnotes.

I have a situation where I have a series of footnotes all pointing to the same footnote. In this case, they all are pointing to footnote b at the foot of a table.

Following the instructions in the FrameMaker Help, I created the original footnote and then did "use-by-reference" footnotes for the rest of the series.

My original footnote entry looks like this:

<fn id="incomplete">For incomplete tasks, the values for incomplete targets are set equal to the mean value of all completed targets.</fn>.

Each subsequent entry looks like this:

<xref href="#r_tasks_trail_making/incomplete" type="fn"/>

Where r_tasks_trail_making is the ID of the current topic.

Just like the example in the FrameMaker Help. Unfortunately, unlike the example in the Help, my result looks like this:

The footnote text is repeated in situ in the subsequent locations instead of the footnote letter.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks,

Wanda

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

There is a cross-reference to the footnote. Make sure the cross-reference format just picks up the footnote's letter instead of the text. It should use a <$paranumonly> or <$elemnumonly> building block instead of <$elemtext>.