Perhaps I've missed something in the DITA docs, but I'm wondering if there is a description of how to specify a publishing context by specifying values for...
... Yes, this capability is in fact available in the DITA Open Toolkit. The toolkit provides the dita.input.valfile parameter, which is defined as: The file...
Good day, all. A client wants DITA-esque documentation migrated into Eclipse running XML Buddy Pro. I think I grok DITA, have Eclipse and XML Buddy Pro...
Looking at DITA, it appears that there are two attributes related to internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) - xml:lang and translate. The xml:lang...
... Yes, as this method will pull only the text that is in the already-translated source files for the links that are pushed into the output topics. ... Hmm,...
... running ... seem ... and ... Do you mean that you want to write documents in DITA by using XML Buddy Pro in Eclipse? ... recognizes ... come ... Saxon 6 is...
... That's exactly right. And then -- from within Eclipse -- start the rendering process whereby saxon generates HTML here, PDF there, etc. ... I have saxon 6...
... etc. ... are ... command line. ... document ... I saw on XML Buddy's home page that XML Buddy Pro can apply XSLT transformations. But I don't know how to...
I am playing around with Kay Ethier's implementation of the DITA DTD system as a FrameMaker EDD. It's going okay -- I have a <topic> document that works well...
Hedley: While I am the one who started the FrameMaker-DITA YahooGroup, for the record the application is not "mine". There are dozens of people on the...
Has anyone heard of someone developing an Eclipse plugin to take advantage of all the nifty new OT1.0 features from within Eclipse? Ted Kuster Technical...
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Hello All A beginner here, just installed Ant and the DITA toolkit. I have set up environment variables for CLASSPATH, ANT_HOME, etc. I tried the command "ant...
This first release of the DITA toolkit is a port, built on a new base of donated code, and has been tested only for Java 1.4.2 with the JDK (documented in the...
Hello Don
Thanks for your reply. I have now installed JRE 1.4.2.08 but get the
same error, as shown below.
C:\DITA\DITA-OT1.0.1-src>ant all
Unable to locate...
Sorry to be boring with this... I have found the tools.jar and added it
to my CLASSPATH. The Java SDK installation created two folders, a
c:\j2sdk1.4.2_08...
Hi, Roger: I didn't see ANT_HOME in your environment list, but I'm assuming that's an oversight of reporting and not configuring. In principle, by the way, if...
Hello Erik and Graham
Below is copied from Graham's very recent reply. He's exactly right. The
DITA-OT1.0.1_src distribution contains 640 files but not the...
Hi, Roger: The source distribution lets you read and understand the Java implementation of those parts of the processing and build your own implementation --...
I did the same thing (downloaded the source instead of the binary). It's an easy mistake to make. I think it'd be good to include, in the source archive, an...
To close on this issue, we'll try to make the distinction between the versions more clear. SourceForge does not provide easy access to its own interface for...
At this week's CIDM conference, it was noted several times that Apache FOP wasn't adequate for PDF generation from DITA's XSL-FO output, but I wasn't clear on...
Just a clarification, Steve. The FO output from the DITA toolkit does in fact cater more to FOP than to commercial engines for the sake of making the Toolkit...
A similar question was posted on RenderX's mailing list. Somebody responded with the following link comparing XSL Formatter (it's their page!), FOP and XEP....
I will be out of the office starting 04/15/2005 and will not return until 04/18/2005. If you have an immediate concern, please contact my manager, Kathleen ...
Following the directions in "Specializing topic types in DITA," ([dita_root]\doc\articles\DITA-dsf.html) I created the files for the API Description...
Thanks for the help on this subject, Don. I'm trying to pull this together now by doing some mock-ups. Say I have 4 files, 1 - english_only_concept.xml 2 -...
I would like to introduce myself to the group. My name is Greg and I am a Technical Writer/Editor. I would have to learn some more to be considered a good...
Recently Idiom has been talking with Indi Liepa from Nokia, and others about the growing interest in DITA in the European business community. We both believe...
For the early fall event, I'll mention SIGDOC 2005 as a potential host site and organization. There's been a long history of DITA papers and workshops at...
Hi Dave, my input, see below, preceded by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1. One idea is a 2 hour breakfast or luncheon seminar in late May in either Amsterdam (coinciding...
