Hi all, The past 2 weeks there have been dita-users in the user group who have asked for user group members with experience of using DITA with Documentum. We...
I wanted to use the audience attribute on the choice element because the last option is only available to expert users. See example below. Is there a reason...
ADVERTISEMENT Part of the reason I'm curious about these two together is the relationship between facets as individual and mutually exclusive classes of...
Bill; My understanding of mutually exclusive facets was that no entity could belo ng to more than one group. That would seem to be consistent with your ...
The DITA toolkits historically have been aimed at providing an easy way to demonstrate DITA capability, but to use them with new content of your own,...
On behalf of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, I want to inform the DITA user community of some recent considerations about the table model used in DITA. As...
1) if dtd A specializes dtd B. - should all elements in A only specialize elements of B, - or may they specialize any element in any package which A ...
Hi Folks, I'm trying to create some modular tutorials using DITA. I'm actually looking at the advantages of DITA vs Docbook's website.dtd, and both have their...
Hello-- I've tried to look at past emails in the forum and here to solve my problem, but none of the posts hit it exactly. (The closest was a discussion of...
Hi Folks, I have a couple of questions about topicmerge.xsl and how to use it. I have two .xml files, lets say a.xml and b.xml. I want these files to be...
One of the subjects on the older, developerWorks "dita" newsgroup concerned conditional processing. Recently the question came up in a conversation, so here...
I am new to this list. I want to be able to put the following content in dita: 1. Do this. 2. Do that. 3. Do one of the following: * Click [icon] to do option...
I'm new to DITA, and just beginning to convert some old documents. I have several related questions about p. Pardon me if the answers should be obvious. ·...
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Hi, During the process of structuring our existing content to DITA, I noticed that the <indexterm> element cannot be inserted within the following elements: ...
Hi, I have been asked to present Nokia experience of moving to DITA and modular XML in general at the UK Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators...
In preparation of our DITA experiment, I would like to find out just what are the software tools available on the market (commercial or free) that could...
Using the dita13 toolkit, is it possible to create a table of contents that will appear in a PDF generated through FO? If it _is_ possible, where is the...
Hi all, I have some questions about best practices for applying metadata to Topics. 1) Some metadata attributes can be assigned at the topic level (using ...
Hi, I have to move my asp application to .NET. I'm trying to process XML DITA documents with XSLs. Because all processing is based on the class attribute, I...
Hi Michael, thank you very much for the tips. ... OK, that's a possibility. However, I think that safety notes are so much important, that they should be...
Hi, I am testing the processing of maps and topics. I will create a website with a toc. I am using the map2WebHTMLTOC.xsl from dita13. Topic transformation is...
I'm still trying to fully understand the state of the current DITA schemas (as provided in the 1.3 IBM DITA distribution). Here are the results I get to date: ...
Hopefully this will be my last post for a while. I'm trying to use conref and am not getting the results I want. testin1.xml contains: <dita> <concept...
I have the following syntax in a concept file. <link href="test.xml" role="next" scope="local" type="concept"></link> After I run the transform (map2html.xsl)...
I am writing a little DITA importer for my toy content management system XIRUSS-T (xiruss-t.sourceforge.net). XIRUSS only supports schemas (and even if I...
Hy, can anybody give me a tip? Sorry, my English ist not the best ;-) I need a lot of safety notes for use in operating instructions of machines. These shall...
Has anyone gotten dita working with EPIC 5? I'm getting compilation errors when trying to create a new doc type in EPIC. Here's one of the errors: Dtgen.exe...
