Hi, Hedley -- Our Idiom WorldServer OpenTopic users are employing your approach #1. That is, they use FrameMaker to write individual topics (topic, concept,...
You can set linking="none" on the parent topicref - or on the map element if it applies to the whole map. Michael Priestley mpriestl@... Steve Anderson...
All: We are currently investigating XML in general and the DITA schemas and toolchains in particular as a solution for user documentation. If there are any...
Hello there: We were wondering whether or not anyone been able to get OpenOffice to use the DITA DTD so that you can do 'native' DITA topic authoring in...
... do ... I've had the same thought myself. I think you might be able to use the Docbook translator as a starting point. Chances are, you'll have to make...
... Right, Larry, but I'll point out a possible simplification. If the OOo (OpenOffice.org) filter is designed to use the DITA class-based matching mechanism,...
All: I spoke to the Open Publish 2005 office just now (< http://www.openpublish.com.au/>). Just because you have registered for the conference doesn't mean...
Hi DITA Users! I've been lurking DITA activity for a while and thought it was now time to experiment a bit. Here are some issues I stumbled on while trying to ...
Camille, I haven't yet installed on a non-Windows platform, but while reading the install instructions I did notice that they are pretty Windows-centric, too. ...
Hi Everyone, The next meeting of the Silicon Valley DITA Users' Group is next Wednesday! Please RSVP directly to me so that I can verify the count for the ...
Skyla: For those who are going to find it a little difficult to get to Buca di Beppo after work next Wednesday (seeing as how we live in Australia, New Jersey,...
Hi Hedley, As the meetings are held in a restaurant and are still somewhat casual, there will not be any slides from the presentations. However, if there are ...
Steve and Don, thanks for your answers. I finally got it to work, it's more a matter of little glitches than truly problems but if documented corectly I hope...
Thanks for the great sniffing on those Linux doc issues, Camille. Duly noted, and we'll correct them as soon as we can. This means, apparently, that you have...
And what does that mean down the road for implementers of DITA? Interesting analysis from David Berlind at ZDNet: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1591...
DITA is a royalty-free standard. The fact that other OASIS standards may not be does not affect DITA or DITA adopters. Michael Priestley mpriestl@... ...
I’d like to set up Epic so that when I click on a cross-reference tag (xrefs in DITA topics or topicrefs in DITA maps), the referenced file (an href...
General XML editors have no way to know what behavior you wish for particular element/attr/value combinations in an arbitrary DTD. The fact that an xref has a...
Hello DITA users, I have a question about DITA task topics. When we have a procedure with a lot of steps, we often use subheadings to subdivide it in multiple...
You will need to split it up into several task topics, but they can all be in the same file, with the subtasks as directly contained children of the higher...
Not sure if anyone else has experienced this but I'm having a couple of problems with xrefs when generating pdfs. It seems that two conditions cause a null...
Responding to an old post by Robert ... ... You only need the element ID when you are referencing an element within the topic. So, you should change ...
Hi, Richard Here is the piece of code that related to the bugs you met in xslfo/dita2fo-links.xsl <xsl:attribute name="internal-destination"> <xsl:choose> <!--...
... You'll find the reasoning in the DITA 1.0 architectural specification: Because topic content is always contained within a topic, the id attribute for a...
All and Michael: Sometimes we have unavoidably long procedures, so we insert subheadings to divide blocks of steps into phases, as Gabi does. However, Gabi...
Thanks for the information, Christopher. I don't really agree with the reasoning. Although this diminishes the chance that non-unique ids are going to exist,...
All: Larry Kollar wrote ... ... ... And Christopher Wong responded ... ... I cannot remember where, but a DITA user (Nokia?) specialised <indexterm> to look a...
My idea of "modular" documentation would be similar to modularity in programming languages: a general topic with some notion of parameters, so that if it were...
This is a change to the output process - the source should be the same, but you need to change the transform (override the XSLT template for steps) to keep...
