Hi Scott, We have developed or are developing some tool solutions in-house (for example, FOSI architecture support tools, help generation tools and tools...
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...
Hello Indi: I am giving a DITA overview presentation in October at the DocTrain conference (in the US, in New England). If you do receive a response regarding...
... This is great news, Indi! ... Indi and Kay (and anyone else with speaking opportunities): You may freely point folks to the TC's public home page. At the...
Hi Kay, Now we all have valuable guidance thanks to Don. Will your presentation be available to DITA OASIS members? I would like to see it if possible and to...
... I went back to the original design discussions about indexing, Puny. The designers assumed that certain elements in DITA were implicitly indexible, meaning...
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. ·...
... I have several related questions about p. Pardon me if the answers should be obvious. ... unmarked text or a p element, and one wants to include a single ...
ANNOUNCE: IBM EXPERTS TO PRESENT PUBLIC WORKSHOPS ON DITA Is your organization considering DITA? The Darwin Information Typing Architecture is gaining users...
Don, Not to beat a dead horse, but I was hearing a mixed message in your response, and I'd like to clarify my understanding. (Though I heard your primary...
... your ... on the ... One way to approach your questions is to look at the issues from a different perspective: imagine that you have already defined a ...
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Bob Fischer
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Aug 20, 2004 9:27 pm
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...
... in ... dita? At the time that the task specialization was designed, the restricted content model for choice must have seemed like a good idea at the time....
One of the subjects on the older, developerWorks "dita" newsgroup concerned conditional processing. Recently the question came up in a conversation, so here...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
LLana, you are right when you try to use topicmerge.xsl to create a single html page document. Merging all documents together creates a multi-topic dita file,...
... You probably meant "a.html" and "b.html" as well as an empty "index.html". The index file is not really meaningful when using the map2html transform. All...
I see some naming discrepancies between your files and my examples, so to make certain that my examples match your filenames, I've renamed my test files and...
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, Gabriel: I'm a bit mystified what the problem might be. The doc/DITA-domains.xml file in the DITA 1.3 distribution has examples of xrefs to nested topics....
Hi, Auriel: Good questions that read the fine print on specialization. ... In both phrasings, the second version is correct. A third phrasing (not an...
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...
Thank you Erik for the reply. First of all, I will assume that when I say "package" and you say "module" we are talking about the same thing. (i.e. a DITA dtd...
Hi, Auriel: Yes, your "package" is my "module." Both terms have been used in DITA discussions. A single standard term is desirable. We can look to the ...
Hi, Ilana: To specify customizations, you can create your own XSLT wrapper that imports the dita2xhtml_shell.xsl or map*2*.xsl script and overrides one of the...
Thank again Erik again for your prompt reply. I just want to now try to correlate your answers to my two initial questions, make sure we have now fully...
... questions... ... class attribute "+ X/ex Y/ex" Yes, this is correct. ... The initial DITA designers shared your discomfort with the potential ambiguity. ...
Thanks again Erik. I think this pretty much clears everything up, and I believe you are pretty clear when you say... ... ... but I just want to make 100% sure...
