Problems defining links inside the same markdown file

[raducoravu]

Started from a discussion with one of our clients.

Let's say inside the Markdown file I have this link:

See <a href="#myFigure1">Flowchart</a>.

and a div section somewhere else:

<div id="myFigure1"></div>

The link will not work because the div id value is re-written to incorporate also the topic ID. But the href value is not re-written.

So how can we link between two elements in the same topic?
This also does not work:

 See [Flowchart](#myFigure1)

and this also does not work:

 See [Flowchart](#./myFigure1)

[raducoravu]

Probably ideally for the person writing the Markdown the link syntax should be the same when used both inside the DITA OT and outside of the DITA OT.

[raducoravu]

The lwdita plugin bundled with DITA OT 4.2.3 started issuing these problems when processing the markdown file, I assume because the <a> element gets converted to an xref without setting also a class attribute on it:

   [DOTJ030I] No @class attribute was found for the <xref> element. Processing as an unknown or non-DITA element.

[raducoravu]

With the lwdita plugin bundled with DITA OT 4.2.3 this syntax seems to work though:

 See [Flowchart](#./myFigure1)

I had previously tested with an older DITA OT distribution.