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document nodes as external parameters
by Lee, David 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

I'm trying to run an XQuery with 2 external parameters expected as document-node(). declare variable $common:annotations as document-node() external ; declare variable $common:patterns as document-node() external ; When I put in a value in the external parameters in the transformation , it forces a quote around them Put in: doc('file://...') Turns into 'doc(file://... <file:///\\...> )' And I get runtime exceptions about a string being passed where a document-node() is expected. Is there any way to pass document nodes directly (not by name) to XQuery within Oxygen ? ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee Senior Principal Software Engineer Epocrates, Inc. dlee(a)epocrates.com <mailto:dlee@epocrates.com> 812-482-5224

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Smart paste in oXygen 12.1: Cannot validate <{...org/1999/xhtml}html>: no element declaration available
by Yves Barbion 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi group I have just installed oXygen XML Editor 12.1 and I'm testing the "smart paste" feature. This is what I do: 1. Create a new topic. 2. Copy a section from a topic on our website: http://www.scripto.nu/index.php?q=en/node/71 3. Put my cursor in the <body> element in oXygen and try to paste the copied section. I'm getting the following error message: Cannot validate <{...org/1999/xhtml}html>: no element declaration availableµ I get the same result when I try to paste a single paragraph. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu

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"Job well done!" messages
by Wendell Piez 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi, Of course, the usual thing with XML processors when validating has been to give error messages for syntax or validation errors, but to be coyly silent when no errors are found. The user is left to infer that everything is good based on the fact that there are no complaints. oXygen improves this state of affairs by having a little box that lights up green when a document is valid, plus a line that says (with admirable clarity) "Document is valid". However, some users wish for more. They'd like a trumpet fanfare or something analogous. (Wouldn't we all?) In particular, I have some users who have asked if they can have their Schematron tell them when there are no errors. I have explained that they will probably have to be content with the green light, and I don't think this is too much to ask of them. But I am also wondering whether oXygen might have hooks somewhere that could be used to pop up an alert box or something, with a congratulatory message of some kind. (This is a case, of course, when having an explicit Schematron report test when "not($a or $b or $c)" won't work, since the number of tests is in the double or triple digits.) What are the ramifications here and what would it take for these users to get what they want? If this were all done inside a processing pipeline I could Schematron the results of my Schematron to run the test; but it's not; nor do they want it to be since of course they like the fact that their error messages have live links back to the documents. I am imagining some kind of facility that could be associated, for example, with a validation scenario. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================

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Possible to Graft Catalog Support to Trang Within Oxygen?
by Eliot Kimber 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Trang as integrated with Oxygen is not catalog aware, which is a bit annoying when you want to generate XSDs from DITA map and topic types, which are all about the catalogs. Is it technically possible for Oxygen to add catalog support to Trang? Having that would be really really handy. Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com

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