Hi, Apologies if I've missed the announcement, I did a quick scan of recent posts and saw nothing about the presentations. I attended the recent DITA...
Sorry for the delay - now available here: http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html#articles Thanks to Robin Cover for hosting and summarizing the materials Michael...
... Bob, I have seen no response to your note, so here's a starting point for what I hope is healthy a community discussion on how to improve things: For...
Hi, I have implemented index processing for my online help and my pdf guides. I didn't do it strickly with xsl because it meant too many pass. The way I do it:...
Hi, Indi and Barbara: As I understand the replacement domain thought, the idea is to leave off the base element when applying a domain. That is, instead of...
hi: i have some text which is heavily nested, but should be manageable with ordinary dita <ol> & <li> tags, except: the lists are not always in order they can...
Why do you skip entries? I'm asking because I am trying to find a semantic reason that would help figure out a way to identify/process elements. France Baril ...
Hi all, I apologize in advance for the long post (cross-posted to dita- framemaker list). I'm new to this list but have done some reading about DITA and ...
hi france: the information is government legislation. here is a quick overview of the structural makeup of legislation. Section 10B below is an actual...
My first thought in that case would be to create a specialization of the basic topic type where li is specialized into entry (or an other name of your choice)...
Mark; In addition to the structural suggestions made by France, I would add some way of tracking the currency of the information (laws) that originates with ...
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Dec 9, 2004 6:41 pm
I have begun to receive the following message in the output from Saxon when processing a map file: neither title nor href This phrase appears in the listing of...
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Dec 9, 2004 6:59 pm
Clarification: The problem topics do get processed, they just don't get included in the TOC file. Ted ... From: Ted Kuster [mailto:tedk@...] Sent:...
hi france & john o': both ideas sound like a plan to me, i appreciate your thoughts on this, it is great to have a group like this to bounce ideas around. rgds...
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Dec 10, 2004 3:07 am
This turns out to be the result of calling a source file twice in the same map file. Apparently it checks to see if it has already processed each file, and if...
... Good sleuthing, Ted. That code is a bit tedious to trace, so with this info I'll go back and look for a recommended fix. The topic needn't be processed...
When I open e.g. reference.dtd with XMLSpy I receive an error message: This file is not valid: DTD error - entity 'words.cnt' is undefined. XMLSpy open...
Hi Chris, Which version of XMLSpy are you using? There are some other I know issues XMLSpy and the schemas, but that depends on whice version of DITA you are...
Does the DITA toolkit have a DocBook-to-DITA conversion tool, by any chance? I know that the toolkit allows you to do the reverse conversion... Thanks, ...
What I'm trying to get at is whether or not converting our legacy homegrown XML content to DocBook would enable an easier migration to DITA than converting...
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Dec 14, 2004 5:41 pm
This site provides a method for getting Webhelp output from DocBook source. http://www.scottnesbitt.net/techdocs/WebHelp_with_DocBook.html Has anyone thought...
I'm back. I did the requisite homework on DITA, and especially since reading the latest post by Bill Trippe on coverpages.org, I think I am ready to resume...
... In your opinion, which architectures support reuse more effectively, and with what tradeoffs? _____ From: ogormanjjka@... [mailto:ogormanjjka@...] ...
... Thanks for grounding the discussion in useful particulars. The DITA map seeks to handle many of these issues. To do a concrete test of the extent to which...
Hi John, I am having a hard time understanding your point of view. DITA's topic-based structure and method of writing is designed specifically to support...
