ph with keyref is not converted to link in PDF output [DOT 2.x develop branch]

If my DITA Map has a key definition like:

    <topicref keys="CONTAINER" href="topics/care.dita">
      <topicmeta>
        <linktext>CONTAINER</linktext>
        <keywords>
          <keyword>CONTAINER</keyword>
        </keywords>
      </topicmeta>
    </topicref>

and another DITA topic has a keyref like:

<ph keyref="CONTAINER"/>

in the XHTML output the keyref becomes a link. But in the PDF output it does not.

[raducoravu]

@robander One of those cases in which the publishing engine works in slightly different way than specs and somehow users start using certain constructs based on what works in the current output. In this case maybe reusing the linktext between two key definitions might have also worked:

      <keydef keys="k_PlainText">
        <topicmeta>
          <linktext conref="#lt"/>
        </topicmeta>
      </keydef>
      <keydef keys="k_Link" href="http://www.google.com" scope="external" format="html">
        <topicmeta>
         <linktext id="lt">Some link text</linktext>
        </topicmeta>
      </keydef>

but not sure if it works because of https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/2420

[raducoravu]

Great, thanks.