Hi all, I have an xref in one of my topics that points to an external URL (something on out intranet). The URL in the href includes &accessible=true. Both the...
Hi Martin, try & in the href. In attributes, if you want to use the literal value ampresand, but not part of an entity, then it must be escaped. Eric...
Hi Eric, Thanks, I'll try using the & entity. The odd thing is, I've had hrefs with this in before now, and never noticed that they caused any problems. I've...
... Does it have to be a number? What's wrong with the href + id as a unique identifier that also let's you figure out where a graphic is used? Is there some...
... Yes, if you are willing to do some programming. There is an example in the source distribution of DITA Open Toolkit called "JavaInvoker.java". It is very...
... noticed ... version ... That could be because the XML parser used in that pipeline stage (gen-list, at a guess) may have been updated or changed, and it is...
... You should be able to make them work in the same build. Use different Ant targets for each map, and either set unique directories for dita.temp.dir and...
Hi Deborah, The URL *was *generated by an authoring tool (albeit a legacy one). But I don't see anything wrong with the URL (lots of URLs contain query strings...
The Arbortext add-on for the authoring plug-in is now available here <http://tagsmiths.com/DownloadPage.html> . Regards, Bob Thomas ... of ... Rationale ... ...
... Yes, and while the URL contains naked ampersands quite happily, it's when you have to write it as an attribute in an XML document that you have to escape...
Hello all, I'd like to know what the best practice is for including small examples in DITA topics (and, possibly, to express my surprise that specialization...
Hi Craig and Dan, I have been trying to build all my PDFs in one target. It worked with OT 122 and FO 121. Here's the target I was using but this Ant build...
... I just use <pre>, e.g.: <dl> <dlentry> <dt>pre</dt> <dd>Use the pre element like so: <pre> <pre>Example stuff goes here</pre> </pre> </dd> ...
Hi Mathew, DITA Support is just a "feature request" with an open status - no resolution yet. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=141776&atid=750632 It's...
Hi I'm using maps like the one below to create html table of contents pages that contain some text followed by some links - <map title="map title"> <topicref...
I agree Bob and I'm able to create valid DITA XML. I haven't checked to see whether it supports DITA 1.0 or 1.1. This looks like a cool tool for people on a...
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture and its committee members always features heavily at the X-Pubs annual conference. This year is no exception! Here...
Last Friday, we posted the first milestone build of DITA-OT 1.5 at SourceForge, under the "test build" section of the download page (DITA-OT 1.5 M1): ...
I've used the org.apache.tools.ant.Project class to invoke DITA-OT transformations from a Java class. You basically supply the location of the build.xml file,...
... I did this for a little custom GUI I had to build. The key code to call Ant that I used was: project = new Project(); // Ant Project class project.init(); ...
Hi Chris, I must confess I have no idea why an image or figure might appear twice in one topic but your documents are differnet then mine as usual. What about...
... Let us know if <linklist> does what you need. It has optional <title> and <desc> children where you should be able to put your additional information. ...
... [...] ... They're all plausible. A variation of (1) is to specialize <dd> directly: remember that a <dlentry> can contain more than one <dd>. Of course,...
I want to use TortoiseSVN as the poor man's CMS for my XML project (based on DITA DTDs). The built-in diff-merge is line oriented, as are many other diff...
Thanks to all who replied...even got a few personal messages too...had no idea that CHM files don't work when launched from a network server. Cheers and...
Dainis Michel
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Traditional transformation approaches -- such as XSLT scripts -- that ensure a specific look and feel to your published documentation are often difficult and...
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