Dear Hedley, Thank you for your question, it gives me the chance to clarify these aspects. Yes, the oXygen XML Editor license covers also the oXygen XML Author...
Hi, is anyone else seeing extra space added to their output when using the FO plugin with constructs like the following? I was able to fix the issue by...
They were called "Overview Maps" in Information Mapping. I'd do it as follows: 1. Create a "title-only" topic which contains the title and a <shortdesc>. The...
Hi Brian, I really don't have much to add. However, you could develop an XSLT to split the files with multiple topics into separate files, I suppose. It would...
Hi I have just configured my XMetal 5.0 DITA Edition installation to use the DITA 1.1 preview DTDs in it's integrated DITA OT. Does anyone know if these...
I used Eric's instructions to split topics in the way you describe, but I had to use the chunk="to-content select-topic" and copy-to attributes on all ancestor...
Hi Eric, Do you know if anything in there really requires 1.5? (I assume there must be; this is just a long shot.) Could I compile against 1.4.2 and end up...
Thanks for posting this Severin! I've been wrestling with the chunk attribute for a couple of weeks. It was kind of working; but I was getting duplicate topic...
(Cross posted on the Taxonomy Community of Practice Yahoo group) Hi all, My employer is currently considering purchasing a CMS to manage our DITA XML assets....
This thread went dormant in early December with some issues surrounding the substitution of XEP with FOP still unrevolved. At that time Simcha Gralla and...
I want to create a representation of the HSV cone similar to that at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HSV_cone.png> to show how it is derived from the CIE...
I don't know if this is the place to bring up comparisons of editors, but I would like to get some feedback from real users. We are a small documentation team...
Hi Jan, I use XMLmind too. When I need to look at the XML, I use jEdit. It has a good XML plugin (which validates the XML and shows you where any errors are)....
Hi,. The DITA OT ANT PDF transformation generates in the output FO file "fox:outline" tags for bookmarks which is the old way in which bookmarks were generated...
Hi, Jan and Sheece. Bob Doyle has updated his 2006 article (which is what you linked to below) with a fabulous article in the April 2008 issue of Intercom, ...
Dear Jan, Have a look at the new oXygen XML Author that we just released the other days. It seems to fill in exactly your needs: * provides support for source...
Hi Elanor, Since no one from the DITA Technical Committee (TC) has replied, I'll take a shot at answering your question. I think that it would be safe to...
It seems that I answered the wrong question. All versions of DITA OT 1.3 used some version the DITA 1.1 DTD; so, there would be no incompatibility there other...
Hello Severin, I discovered the same thing last night. That the Map requires the chunk="to-content select-topic" and copy-to attributes on all the topicrefs...
Hi Bob and Elanor, The preview copies that were part of DITA-OT 1.3.1 should be safe to use. There were only very minor changes between those and the final...
Hi all, We're trying to process a large ditabase file (contains apprx 3300 reference topics, 6.5 mB) that is automatically generated from our software source...
Hi, I've two topics: Topic A Topic B Topic A is for all users and topic B is for "internal" users. I've set this via the permissions tag in the topic prolog....
... Why do you need to modify the link at all? You should be able to resolve the link to its target in your XSLT processing and examine the permissions of the...
... I'm not sure how detailed an answer you're looking for, since this is an XSLT processing question. The short answer: use the href= value of the link to get...
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