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...
Hi, Ariel: Thanks for driving the conversation toward precision. In particular... ... element itself being called ySection, not just the class attribute, ...
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Bob Fischer
bfischer@...
Sep 9, 2004 4:46 pm
I am trying to describe four types of index entries in DITA: 1) angular gradient tool 207 printers drivers 365 These two are standard index entries: a word or...
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...
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,...
... Better documentation. ... A "getting started" sort of document with *lots* of examples and a tidy up of the language reference document (table of contents,...
In the "better documentation" realm I would recommend the DITA users guide adapt a method from O'Reilly's "DocBook, The Definitive Guide" (the Duckbook). In...
I'd be interested in hearing, onlist, what Documentum is doing. I've heard differing info on how strong their product is for markup language content. Kay ... ...
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 ...
Hi, John: Like Bill Hall over on xml-doc, my understanding is that facet-based taxonomies are classification schemes for content. In DITA, a straightforward...
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...
Hi, France: Don Day tells me that the choice element is more restrictive than it should be, both for the content model and the attributes. Don expects to...
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 have been looking through old posts to this list and have seen some discussion of implementing indexes using tags such as <indexterm></indexterm>, but I am...
... The nested design of DITA's indexterm actually allows for creating hierarchical index entries, and indeed conref (or more likely keyref) is a possible...
There are two questions I have to the element <images>. - For what purpose is the attribute "align" for the image element, when the alignment should be...
... based solution, but would not feel qualified to discuss it in any detail. I'm >hoping that someone from IBM could enlarge on this. Will do :-) First, a...
Dear DITA friends, To meet our user requirements, we have been specialising DITA to create very focussed topic types. We have been doing this for just over a...
Indi; I'm not sure my comments, which are short on technical advice, will add to your understanding of where you need to go with this, but I will throw them ...
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Kuster,Ted
tedk@...
Oct 13, 2004 12:14 am
I'm finding that the sample XSL files in the 1.3 toolkit are pretty bare-bones. There's no processing for a number of tags that I need. (For example, the...
Following the release of the dita13 version of the DITA Toolkit last Spring, several bugs have been reported or discovered. A refresh level of the "dita13"...
... (For ... time ... be ... library of ... Hi, Ted. Although some of the transforms in the current toolkit are sparse in what they do, I'd suggest that there...
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Kuster,Ted
tedk@...
Oct 13, 2004 11:05 pm
Don, Thanks very much. I think I get the part about doing your specific tag processing in a shell or override rather than messing with the base-level xsl. ...
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Kuster,Ted
tedk@...
Oct 13, 2004 11:15 pm
OK, before we get into what I originally asked about, I have a more fundamental problem. You'll forgive me for a newbie-ish question. I am using Saxon to...
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Kuster,Ted
tedk@...
Oct 14, 2004 12:17 am
Sorry to be hogging list space this week, but I have another question I haven't been able to answer just with the 1.3 toolkit and Google. What is the meaning...
