June 2009 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

parameters, catalogs, docbook, etc
by Robert Nagle 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi, I'm a relative xml newbie, and I'm trying to use docbook to generate .epub archives (docbook 1.7.4 has a xsl transform for that). I find I am lost in a lot of things having to do with the basic environment/customization. When you configure a transformation, you can edit the parameters by clicking parameters. I understand what is going on here. But I can't understand where the customizations you are making to parameters are written down. Suppose I bring my docbook files to a new computer without Oxygen and I must use the same customizations.Where does Oxygen store these values--in a text file somewhere? When you configure a custom transformation, where is the configuration information stored after you are done? Is there a path for project customizations as opposed to global customizations? Speaking of good transforms, it would be nice to setup a transform to epub format for docbook files (especially since the xsl file is basically done). Thanks. rj -- Robert Nagle 12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417 Houston, Texas 77082 713 893 3424 htpt://www.robertnagle.info

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Embedding transform history in oXygen output
by Karen Schneider 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi all, thanks again for all the help several weeks ago. Demo'ing oXygen in a project-wide DocBook documentation planning session was very useful. I am wondering if there is a way to automatically embed information about transformation history into HTML generated by oXygen. I'm thinking about chapters and articles, etc. produced by a distributed volunteer force where an editor upstream may have questions about the XSL stylesheet version, the date the file was produced, etc. I am thinking this metadata would probably work best as hidden comments. We can (and probably should) use our forthcoming style manual to require inserting this information regardless of the method of production, and enforce usage through the usual methods (bribes, pleading, public floggings, etc.); not everyone will be using oXygen, and some may be using batch files that effectively serve the same purpose. But I can see where downstream it would be useful to generate as much of this automatically as possible. -- -- | Karen G. Schneider | Community Librarian | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts" | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712 | kgs(a)esilibrary.com | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com

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Combo box in Author Mode
by Rogie Isabelle 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hello, Is it possible to present an element as a combo box in "Author mode" and choose between different words? Is it possible in a css file? Best Regards, _______________________________________ Isabelle Rogie Database Chief project Wolters Kluwer France

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Not Seeing Any Transform Scenarios for DITA Maps in Oxygen 10
by Eliot Kimber 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

A colleague upgraded from 9 to 10.0 and then from 10.0 the 10.2. In both 10.0 and 10.2 he does not get any transformation scenarios for DITA maps in the map manager. I couldn't see any obvious reason for this--I went through the install with him and made sure all the DITA-related settings and setup were correct as far as I could tell. What would cause this behavior? Thanks, E. ---- Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. email: ekimber(a)reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com>

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Insert date
by Rogie Isabelle 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hello, Is it possible to insert automatically the date in an element in an xml file associated with a DTD? Best Regards, _______________________________________ Isabelle Rogie Database Chief project Wolters Kluwer France

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docbook variable substitution
by Andrew Harrison 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hi, Apologies if this is slightly off topic. I have a docbook question. Is there a way to define a variable in docbook and reference it in the text? In latex I would do: "\newcommand{\book}{Gone With the Wind}" then in the text: "I recently read \book." which would render as "I recently read Gone With the Wind." I can't seem to find out if this is possible. Thanks in advance. Andrew

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Re: [oXygen-user] rewrite statements in catalog
by Radu Coravu 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hi José, We'll try to make an improvement so that the Author page tries to resolve through the catalog the unparsed entity location so you will be able to map the locations using <rewriteSystem> or <system> and still get the images displayed in the Author. The fix should be available in Oxygen 10.3 (couple of weeks). In the last email I was mostly referring to the XML document post-processing (publishing to HTML, PDF, etc). How do you plan to do that if from what we tested none of the XSLT processors map the unparsed entities through the catalog? Regards, Radu -- Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com José Miguel Mangas wrote: > Hi, Radu > > > What I pretend is to display the image when editing in Author mode, > independently of the location of subversion server. > So, when a user opens the XML in Author mode, and the XML contains > something like > > <!DOCTYPE dmodule [ > <!ENTITY TBD SYSTEM "http://s1000d/TBD.svg" NDATA SVG> > ]> > > the image TBD.svg was found at subversion repository (say at > http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/) and shown, and if the > subversion repository changes location (say at > http://otherserver.otherdomain.net/svnrepos/s1000d) it was not > necessary to change all entities in XML documents. > > I don't plan pre-process the XML before editing. > > Regards, > Jose M. Mangas > > > El 09/06/2009, a las 9:36, Radu Coravu escribió: > >> Dear José, >> >> We understand your use-case and indeed the Author page could be >> improved to try and resolve the unparsed entity SYSTEM through the >> URI resolver and use the result to display the image. >> On the other hand, I do not think this is consistent with the output >> of an XSLT transformation. >> From what we tested, both the Saxon 6 and Saxon 9 XSLT transformers >> do not try to go through catalog when solving the unparsed entity >> using the "unparsed-entity-uri" method. >> Here are some small samples: >> >> catalog.xml: >> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> >>  >> <uri name="http://www.oxygenxml.com/lake.jpeg" uri="../lake.jpeg"/> >> </catalog> >> >> test.xml: >> <!DOCTYPE root[ >> <!ENTITY ENT SYSTEM "http://www.oxygenxml.com/lake.jpeg" NDATA JPEG> >> ]> >> <root ref="ENT"></root> >> >> test.xsl: >> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >> version="1.0"> >> <xsl:template match="//root"> >> <xsl:value-of select="unparsed-entity-uri(@ref)"/> >> </xsl:template> >> </xsl:stylesheet> >> >> From what I understand from the specifications the unparsed entities >> are not solved through catalog. >> See: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#unparsed-entities >> Do you plan to perform additional processing of the XML file before >> transforming? >> >> Regards, >> Radu >> >> -- >> Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger >> http://www.oxygenxml.com >> >> >> José Miguel Mangas wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The XML documents I work with have the following form: >>> <?xml version="1.0"?> >>> <!DOCTYPE dmodule [ >>> <!ENTITY TBD SYSTEM >>> "http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/TBD.svg" NDATA SVG> >>> ]> >>> <dmodule ...> >>> ... >>> <graphic boardno="TBD"/> >>> ... >>> </dmodule> >>> >>> As you can see, the figures system location are in a subversion >>> repository and when specified as in the sample, figures are >>> displayed OK in Author mode, CSS associated to the documents have >>> the following entry to handle figures: >>> graphic { >>> display: block; >>> content: url(unparsed-entity-uri(attr(boardno))); >>> } >>> >>> I was trying to separate XML content from the actual subversion >>> repository server inserting in the catalog.xml for my document type >>> association: >>> ... >>> <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://s1000d/" >>> rewritePrefix="http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/"/> >>> <rewriteURI uriStartString="file://" >>> rewritePrefix="http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/"/> >>> ... >>> >>> and changing the ENTITY declaration to: >>> <!ENTITY TBD SYSTEM "http://s1000d/TBD.svg" NDATA SVG> >>> >>> But when in Author mode, the figure is not displayed, the following >>> error message is displayed in a red box instead of the image: >>> "Cannot display image http://s1000d/TBD.svg" >>> >>> It seems the rewrite statement in catalog.xml is not working. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jose M. Mangas >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> oXygen-user mailing list >>> oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com >>> http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user >>> >> >> >

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rewrite statements in catalog
by José Miguel Mangas 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hello, The XML documents I work with have the following form: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE dmodule [ <!ENTITY TBD SYSTEM "http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/ TBD.svg" NDATA SVG> ]> <dmodule ...> ... <graphic boardno="TBD"/> ... </dmodule> As you can see, the figures system location are in a subversion repository and when specified as in the sample, figures are displayed OK in Author mode, CSS associated to the documents have the following entry to handle figures: graphic { display: block; content: url(unparsed-entity-uri(attr(boardno))); } I was trying to separate XML content from the actual subversion repository server inserting in the catalog.xml for my document type association: ... <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://s1000d/" rewritePrefix="http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/ "/> <rewriteURI uriStartString="file://" rewritePrefix="http://myserver.mydomain.net:81/svn/s1000d/ "/> ... and changing the ENTITY declaration to: <!ENTITY TBD SYSTEM "http://s1000d/TBD.svg" NDATA SVG> But when in Author mode, the figure is not displayed, the following error message is displayed in a red box instead of the image: "Cannot display image http://s1000d/TBD.svg" It seems the rewrite statement in catalog.xml is not working. Any ideas? Regards, Jose M. Mangas

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Forbid to insert text
by Rogie Isabelle 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hello, Is it possible to forbid inserting some characters, between two elements para for example in "Author" mode? Best Regards, _______________________________________ Isabelle Rogie Database Chief project Wolters Kluwer France

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Why Does Does Oxygen Think There is No Schema for This Document?
by Eliot Kimber 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

Via Webdav to an instance of an RSuiteCMS database I have edited a document that looks like this: <Chapter xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://localhost:8080/rsuite/schemas/6d00bb0 04fcee1765c68a4bb7dafa548.xsd"> Where the URL of the XSD schema can be resolved by Oxygen (that is, I can do ctrl+enter and the schema document opens). However, Oxygen says there is no DTD or schema associated with the document and won't validate it. In the past I've had this problem when my catalogs were not configured correctly, but here there is an explicit and resolvable URL. Is my problem a configuration problem and if so, what would the configuration issue be? Thanks, Eliot ---- Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. email: ekimber(a)reallysi.com <mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com> office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com>

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