Collection-Type-Default setting missing?

Expected Behavior

In the pdf output i want to have reltable linkage between topics, and no automatic parent / child linkage (if not specified explicitly by <topicref href="topics/intro/concepts-intro.dita" collection-type="...">

So by default i want to have no parent / child linkage, only when specified via attribute collection-type. But i want all reltable links to appear.

Actual Behavior

This is not possible currenlty, since either i set --args.rellinks=all

which will include parent & child links, or i set --args.rellinks=none which will exclude my reltable links. If i specify --args.rellinks=nofamily will prevent the explicitly requested links <topicref href="topics/intro/concepts-intro.dita" collection-type="choice"> to appear.

Possible Solution

I would expect that the --args.rellinks= (or any other option) only specifies the default value for the collection-type if not set for a topic, so it can be defined per-topic wise.

Environment

Tested on dita-ot 3.1 and 3.3 on Linux Ubuntu 19.10.

[infotexture]

In the pdf output i want to have reltable linkage between topics, and no automatic parent / child linkage … only when specified via attribute collection-type.

In the docs we have the same use case, and use the internal propertyinclude.rellinks = friend to achieve the desired result.

It might make sense to extend the args.rellinks parameter description with a cross-reference to the list of valid link roles in include.rellinks and explicitly list which roles are active for each value. (Some roles may require further explanations as well).

[thendarion]

the attribute/property is fine, I believe

if you look at the generated dita in the temp folder, it has links

but when you look at the generated fo, it has no links 😦

@jelovirt any immediate ideas? 😄