January 2008 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

Entering Paragraphs in DITA Content
by Eliot Kimber 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

I'm using OxygenXML for some heads-down authoring of DITA-based content. I had gotten used to being able to do enter/enter to get a <p> element in body content. However, after I entered a few <pre> elements, pre started coming to the top of the list, which broke my conditioning. I think it's important that double enter always result in paragraph, as that's the way most people are conditioned, both by word processors and by other XML editors. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Strange Results from XSD Documentation Generator
by Eliot Kimber 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

I'm trying to use the XSD Documentation Generator on a flattened XSD generated using the NekoDTD tool from a DITA specialization (in this a slightly modified version of the element_ref topic type from the element_ref plug-in). I'm generating the documentation chunked but not processing included or imported schemas (because there aren't any). I'm also turning JavaScript off. However, in my generated HTML I see two things: 1. All the textual links to used element types look like this: <a title=""titlealts" element declaration could not be found." href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="alert('"titlealts" element declaration could not be found.');"> 2. For some elements (e.g., element_ref) the area map for the schema diagram is empty but it is correctly generated for other types. I have not specified a links file because it shouldn't be need since I'm only processing one flattened schema. Any idea what might be going on? I can provide the XSD I'm processing. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Configuring Document Templates
by Eliot Kimber 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

I need to add templates for a number of different document types (in this case, a large number of DITA map and topic specializations). It looks like the "Additional templates directory" just takes a single value: I would expect it to be a list of directories. The way I have my templates organized, each distinct map and topic type is in its own directory and has a templates/ directory beneath it. Have I missed something? Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Scripting a set of search and replace actions
by Eliot Kimber 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

This is probably RTFM but I'm lazy so sue me. I'm using Oxygen to do quick-and-dirty data conversion that requires applying the same set of search and replace actions to different files. What I'm doing is too ad-hoc to really warrant creating a full-on script or transform but I'm repeating the process enough times that I'd like to capture part of it. What I'd like to be able to do is save a sequence of search and replace actions that I can then easily load and re-apply. Is there a way to do that today? Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Is this a good place to post feature requests?
by Francois Jordaan 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I know oXygen's support page has a "Feature request" contact option, but posting it in a public forum makes it easier for people to share their agreement or disagreement, or point out if the feature or equivalent already exists. And I noticed several feature requests on the list already. Of course, if oXygen staff won't read them here, then there's little point. f -- francois(a)isotoma.com / Isotoma, Open Source Software Consulting Tel: 01904 567349 / Mobile: 07872 394273 / Fax: 020 79006980 Skype: fjordaan / http://www.isotoma.com Postal Address: Tower House, Fishergate, York, YO10 4UA, UK Registered in England. Company No 5171172. VAT GB843570325. Registered Office: 19a Goodge Street, London, W1T 2PH

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How To Apply Saxon XQuery to Input Document of Transformation Scenario
by Eliot Kimber 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I wanted to apply an XQuery to the input document specified in a Saxon transformation scenario but it wasn't immediately obvious how this would work. I figured out that this works: let $doc := . As the first statement in the query (or the first that doesn't reset the context value). I think this works because Saxon uses the value of the -s parameter as the value of the query's context node (which is accessed using "."). It would be useful to have an example of this in the online help for running XQueries using Saxon. Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Can't Apply XQuery Scenario From Document Window
by Eliot Kimber 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

It appears that from a document's window you can only apply XSLT transforms, not XQuery transforms. Is that correct? And if so, why? I tried creating an XQuery scenario that took the current doc as input but when I apply it it's trying to process it as XSLT. I realize this is probably not the normal way to use XQuery, but in this case I wrote a query that analyzes a single document and just want to apply it to a doc without having to re-edit the scenario. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Feature Request: Remember parameters to trang converter
by Eliot Kimber 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

I've been using the trang converter to do some iterative development (generate XSD, test result, fix DTD, generate XSD, try different options, etc.) and found it annoying that the converter dialog didn't remember at least the directories I had used for the input and output, if not the specific files. Would it be possible to have the dialog remember the last values used or default to the directories used for input and output? Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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Drag to oXygen Dock icon (OS X) doesn't work
by Francois Jordaan 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

I'd appreciate some help from Mac users of oXygen. Why can I not drag .html files onto the oXygen Dock icon? I can drag .css files to it (possibly only since the 9.1 update), but not .html. francois -- francois(a)isotoma.com / Isotoma, Open Source Software Consulting Tel: 01904 567349 / Mobile: 07872 394273 / Fax: 020 79006980 Skype: fjordaan / http://www.isotoma.com Postal Address: Tower House, Fishergate, York, YO10 4UA, UK Registered in England. Company No 5171172. VAT GB843570325. Registered Office: 19a Goodge Street, London, W1T 2PH

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Feature Request: Refactor: Create New Document
by Eliot Kimber 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

It would be handy to have a "create document from element" refactor, as well as a "create document and replace with {xref|conref|xinclude}" depending on your document type context. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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