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 ...
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...
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Oct 13, 2004 12:14 am
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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...
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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Oct 13, 2004 11:05 pm
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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...
Kuster,Ted
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Oct 13, 2004 11:15 pm
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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...
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Oct 14, 2004 12:17 am
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... file, but ... Ted, I had not checked the overrides examples lately. Because of a change in the base transforms, a corresponding change is also needed in...
... These seem related to bugs in the DTDs of the dita13 distribution, although I cannot reproduce the messages with saxon 6.5. This command ran without error...
Don, Funny you should ask. I think I may have just figured out that Saxon 8 won't work because it implements XML 2.0 and all the DITA files declare XML 1.0. Am...
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Oct 14, 2004 1:40 pm
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... Then it turns out that you have been invoking XSLT 2.0-level processing on the DITA stylesheets, which implement some syntax that is not allowed under XSLT...
Great. That gets rid of the strange error messages. Closing this issue, until the next newbie runs into it. Thanks Ted ... From: Don Day...
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Oct 14, 2004 7:03 pm
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Don, that looks like it fixed the problem. I am up and running with my own overrides. The IBM folks I met advised me that the key to using DITA effectively was...
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Oct 14, 2004 10:02 pm
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The next question I have belongs to the attributs According to the chunking rules we defined the following elements to be reused within the xml documents.: The...
Newbie question: I have a step in a procedure. In this step I want to reuse the names and purposes of three directories that I want the user to create. (The...
Ted Kuster
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Oct 21, 2004 7:39 pm
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You have to reuse between two elements that are the same - so if you want to reuse the info as the replacement for a whole step, it has to be authored as a...
Got it, thanks. It makes sense that you have to conref between like elements. This is actually covered, partly, in the language reference topic on "%id-atts."...
Ted Kuster
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Oct 21, 2004 9:14 pm
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... Your strategy is good, Ted. Michael's response suggested replacing at the step level (and yes, you need the parent topic's id, which was myreusedstepstask...
Don, Thanks. The ultimate affirmation: your example looks almost exactly like what I did. I'm keeping your code, because it's prettier. It is dawning on me...
Ted Kuster
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Oct 21, 2004 11:06 pm
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... The prolog definition of audience includes several dimensions: job, experience level, etc. Typically these are combined to create a very specific audience...
... the ... domains) ... create new ... metadata ... attribute, or ... way. I ... there's more ... Do I understand that right: the specialization does not...
The type attribute at the element <note> contains the data types (note | tip | fastpath | restriction | important | remember | attention | caution | danger |...
... I'll convey this suggestion to the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, Chris. Thanks for the observation! Regards, -- Don Day <dond@...> Chair, OASIS...
... #IMPLIED' ... That's correct, it's not allowed. That said, let me explain why, and what your alternatives are. Why: Every new element you add to DITA has a...
DITA folk, When I run a map file through the map2web xsl stylesheet, how do I specify the output path for all the topic files? The command I'm using places the...
Ted Kuster
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Oct 26, 2004 5:39 am
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Did I understand the DITA concpet right? If I have sections, examples or single steps which would be reused in different documents, e.g. when I have several...
Reuse of <note>, <table>, <p>: We have several standardized notes, tables, paragraphs and even "required clean-up" informations which would be identically ...
