Check out Don Day's 10/21 message in response to a similar question I asked. That will get you going. Ted ... From: Chris Kravogel [mailto:chris@...] ...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 26, 2004 5:23 pm
Don -- Somewhere you wrote something about how you can automate (to some degree) the creation of related-links sections in a DITA source file. (Unless I...
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Don R. Day
nodyad
Oct 26, 2004 7:32 pm
... Although you can use related-links (and its linklist child structures) to represent relationships between topics, Ted, you are discovering that at best it...
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ehennum5
Oct 26, 2004 8:17 pm
Hi, Ted: Unfortunately, the XSLT script can't get the value of the -o parameter. So, you have to pass the outputdir parameter to the XSLT script to inform the...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 26, 2004 8:19 pm
Don, Sure, I think you should develop each feature just as my project becomes ready for it! Now if only I could get my own company's developers to think that...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 26, 2004 8:30 pm
Another angle: How is a ditamap different from the map file I put together for my HTML output? Can I use a ditamap instead of the map file? Sorry about all the...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 26, 2004 8:41 pm
My definition lists get processed OK, but they don't come out as tables. They get put into indented list-like format. I bet I could fix that if I could figure...
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Don R. Day
nodyad
Oct 26, 2004 9:37 pm
... I think we are talking about the same thing, Ted. I've been referring to DITA maps all along; ".ditamap"; is a file extension used in IBM's authoring...
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Don R. Day
nodyad
Oct 26, 2004 11:18 pm
... There is no easter egg or switch for this function in the current stylesheets, but you can easily add the function. Add the following code into the end of...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 26, 2004 11:46 pm
Fabulous! I'll try it. Thanks. Ted ... From: Don R. Day [mailto:dond@...] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:18 PM To: dita-users@yahoogroups.com ...
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Don R. Day
nodyad
Oct 26, 2004 11:50 pm
... You are not missing anything for now, Ted. If you put literal related-links content into your source, it will be transformed into equivalent nav links in...
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Bill Trippe
billtrippe
Oct 27, 2004 3:21 am
Hello, Some of you may have seen a quick back and forth Don Day and I had on xml-doc list about specialization with DITA. (If anyone is interested, I can...
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France Baril
francebaril_...
Oct 27, 2004 1:09 pm
Hi Bill, I specialized the generic topic to create an exercise topic type for training manuals. My reason for doing it: no existing type was nearly close to...
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indi.liepa@...
indiliepa
Oct 27, 2004 3:30 pm
Hi Bill, We decided in Nokia (the mobile phones part of the business) that we needed to specialise to get the strong focussed topic typing we need in our...
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ogormanjjka@...
laptopjockey
Oct 27, 2004 3:53 pm
I have a question (what else is new). The specialization diagrams are great, btw. Here's my question: How far into a product (you mentioned 'family' I think) ...
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Scott Abel
abelsp5315
Oct 27, 2004 4:04 pm
Kay Ethier of Bright Path Solutions (www.travelthepath.com) and I are working on an article for The Rockley Bulletin (www.rockleybulletin.com) that explores...
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Mike Blake
blakesilcher
Oct 27, 2004 8:42 pm
Scott, check the XML cover pages, where there is a reference to Nokia using DITA. Apparently so is Verizon, but I have no link for the Verizon usage. Sorry. -...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 28, 2004 12:19 am
OK, here's the problem with that: this being a startup, I have a list of product feature names that are constantly changing. I have placed several of these...
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Michael Priestley
mfcpriestley
Oct 28, 2004 1:08 am
There may be a problem with the version of the DTD you are using. Are you using the 1.3 toolkit or later? <keyword> should be available in both uicontrol and...
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indi.liepa@...
indiliepa
Oct 28, 2004 9:32 am
Hi, I hope I understand the question correctly. To clarify, our specialisation levels are based on topic types for different domains within the mobile area of...
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ogormanjjka@...
laptopjockey
Oct 28, 2004 1:05 pm
I think I understand, but could you give an example of "... different domains within the mobile area..."? I guess what I'm trying to get a handle on is the...
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Don R. Day
nodyad
Oct 28, 2004 3:03 pm
... to one another ... This is a really great question, John, and worthy of discussion and refinement in the forum. One principle that might help is to be...
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Christopher Wong
christopher_...
Oct 28, 2004 4:11 pm
Well, you asked for it: Idiom's WorldServer OpenTopic: our enterprise DITA solution http://www.idiominc.com/products/worldserver-gep-opentopic.asp ...
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Chris Kravogel
seicodyne
Oct 28, 2004 4:46 pm
Is it allowed to modify the value lists of the audience attributes type, job and experiencelevel? Especially in experiencelevel we need a diffenent list....
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ogormanjjka@...
laptopjockey
Oct 28, 2004 5:15 pm
Don; This is an interesting topic, and one that has held my interest for quite a while. I like the way you lay out the design considerations: information...
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Ted Kuster
tedk@...
Oct 28, 2004 5:44 pm
I'm using the 1.3.1 update version of the toolkit. My markup looks just like yours, unless I'm missing something. Here's the borrowing file. I've also tried it...
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ogormanjjka@...
laptopjockey
Oct 28, 2004 8:14 pm
Maybe I should try to summarize. :~) Given that there are three basic information types in DITA, my contention is that the only way to specialize these three...
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France Baril
francebaril_...
Oct 28, 2004 9:03 pm
Hi, your explanation seems confusing to me because domain vocabulary appears to be mixed up with topic specialization. Here is how I decide when to specialize...
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ogormanjjka@...
laptopjockey
Oct 28, 2004 10:06 pm
I think we are saying more or less the same thing... The confusion you hear in my summary is probably due more to my inexperience with the DITA vocabulary...
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Don R. Day
nodyad
Oct 29, 2004 5:34 am
... Ah, what you are missing, Ted, is that when we opened up the content model for linktext to allow replaceable phrases, we did not think to check all the...
