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10.3 DITA Editor Behaviors
by Eliot Kimber 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

I'm using DITA 10.3 - The ID generator is nice but it would be nice if it generated much shorter IDs. It looks like it's generating UUIDs but in most cases it would be sufficient if the generated ID incorporated the ID of the root topic and a shorter value, such as a 5-digit serial number. Since IDs for elements other than topics only need to be unique within their containing parent topic, there's no need for long or globally-unique IDs (and there shouldn't *ever* be a need for such IDs, but I realize that some CMS systems impose that requirement). - The ID generator does not modify IDs on copy--that means if I create a topic within a parent topic and then copy it, I get a "duplicate ID" validation error and have to go manually fix the ID. Copy (as opposed to move) should act like create and assign a new ID. If Oxygen can't reliably distinguish move from copy then the current behavior is better than resetting an existing ID value. - The behavior of the insert topic ref dialog when you select "append child" is to continue appending children, so if you keep the dialog open after doing say "insert topicref to currently-edited file" and don't change the insertion location, the next topic inserted is inserted as a child of the one you just inserted, which is almost *never* what I want. In almost every case that I've inserted a topic and then want to insert more, I'm inserting children of the initial parent topicref that all exist in the same directory as the topic I just inserted. That is, I think it would make more sense for the dialog to *always* revert to "insert after" behavior even if the origin insertion was an "append child" insert. Cheers, 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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Topicref Insertion Feature Request: Recognize Maprefs Vs. Topicrefs
by Eliot Kimber 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

One side effect of the new behavior I requested whereby the topicref insertion dialog remembers the last topicref type used is that if you insert a map reference and then insert a topicref, you'll get a mapref by default, which is never right. Would it be possible for the insertion dialog to look at the type of the target, once it is selected, and select the first topicref that specifies a value for format that matches the target type if the currently-selected type isn't appropriate? That is, given that I last inserted a topic and I select a map, see if there are any available topicref types that specify format="ditamap" and, if so, select the first one. For DITA 1.2 there will usually be at least <mapref> in the default map shell doctype. If I last inserted a map and I select a topic and the currently-select topicref type specifies format="ditamap", select either the first topicref type in the list, or more usefully, the last-used topicref-to-a-topic type. That is, if the insertion dialog can select a good default for refs to maps and topics and remember the last type used for each type of reference, it would have the effect of making the insertion dialog select the mostly-likely-to-be-right topicref type regardless of whether I'm inserting a map or topic. Cheers, 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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Link one ditamap to another?
by Loreti, Wendy 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

I'm currently working on two products. Product A will become a component in Product B. I created a project for Product A with its own ditamap and so on. For Product B, I created a reference to the project for Product A (I'm using the Eclipse plugin version of oxygen) and linked from Product B's ditamap to Product A's ditamap. While oxygen appears to let me do this, it's not generating the topics for Product A's project. Wendy Loreti Senior Technical Writer Vocollect, Inc. 703 Rodi Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15235 www.vocollect.com <http://www.vocollect.com/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, together with any attachments, may be legally privileged and is confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It is exempt from disclosure under applicable law including court orders. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copy of this message, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer.

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New Author Insert Behavior? New Sibling of Current Element
by Eliot Kimber 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

I'm doing authoring of a definition list. To create a new dlentry it's most effective to move outside the current dlentry and then hit enter to get "new dlentry", rather just move outside the dd (where I am when I'm done in the current dlentry) and do "split dlentry", because split doesn't cause the required subelements dt and dd to be created. It occurs to me it might be useful to add a new option, "new sibling {tagname}" in addition "split {tagname}". Alternatively, have "split" behave like "new" such that it inserted required subelements in the newly-created element if the split occurs at the end of the split element (meaning that the split is identical to a "new" action). Cheers, 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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Quicker way to insert character entities?
by Helen Borrie 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hello, I'm using the authoring application. Is there any way to get character entities into the Author view? I expected that, by typing the special character, e.g. a double-quote, the editor would automatically replace it with the standard entity, " in this case. But it is not the case. The document is saved with just the literal character, as typed. By trial and error I found that, if I switch to the Text view, I can type "&" to display a drop-list, from which I can select an entity and it will be inserted at the caret. This is terribly slow and awkward to do. It is faster to copy and paste. I can't find any reference to character entities/special characters in either the Oxygen or the Author help. Any clues welcome. Thanks. Helen

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Creating a custom menu
by Michael Rush 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hello, I've searched through the forum and email archive for similar queries but have found nothing. If this has been covered previously, I apologize for the duplication. I am running Editor 10.3. I would like to create a custom menu with several actions, including an external validation against a specific RNG schema and several transformation scenarios. In particular the RNG external validation is an action that I repeat frequently and I'd like to avoid the step of selecting the schema each time I initiate an external validation after reopening Oxygen. Many thanks, Mike

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Catalog URI Resolver for XSLT Include/Import in Editor?
by Eliot Kimber 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

I'm finding myself in the situation where I want to edit style sheets that will, ultimately, use custom URIs to point to resources. For editing on the file system it would be easiest if I could use an XML catalog to map my private URIs to the files on my file system so the same reference will work as developed and as deployed. Is that possible today? I didn't see anything likely in the help or searching on URI resolver in the mailing list archives. 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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No page numbers in TOC or xrefs
by Loreti, Wendy 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

I'm sorry if this is something obvious, but I'm transforming into pdf using Idiom and Apache FOP, and there are no page numbers in my table of contents or where I have a cross-reference. What should I be doing differently? Thanks, Wendy Loreti Senior Technical Writer Vocollect, Inc. 703 Rodi Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15235 www.vocollect.com <http://www.vocollect.com/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, together with any attachments, may be legally privileged and is confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It is exempt from disclosure under applicable law including court orders. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copy of this message, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer.

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SVN Client on Oxygen 10.3 UUID mismatch: existing directory 'trunk/eXist/extensions/xprocxq' was checked out from a different repository
by mozer 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Dear, Will updating my exist package with Oxygen 10.3 I got this message Échec de l'opération: svn: UUID mismatch: existing directory 'trunk/eXist/extensions/xprocxq' was checked out from a different repository And then, even cleaning the package was not sufficient It did work with 10.2 (and I didn't try to make it work with 10.3 and without migrating to SVN 1.6) Cheers, Xmlizer

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Is it possible, when doing a DITA OT transform, to specify ant parameters?
by Steven Anderson 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I like to use ant's XmlLogger as a logger for my ant builds. I think that's the last piece keeping me from really utilizing the DITA OT transforms from within oXygen, now that I can specify my own ant home. I still don't see any way to specify ant parameters as part of the scenario, though, only JVM args. What I'd like to see is a text box, just like the one for JVM args, for ant params, so I could add "-logger org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger -logfile buildlog.xml" to my ant command. Is there a way to do that already and I'm missing it? Steve ps - I don't post often, but I use oXygen every day. It is, really, one of the best tools I have ever used. The rate that you add new features and functionality is astounding, and, often, it seems like you are reading my mind. When I run into a problem and I think, "I wish oXygen could do this ...." it often already does, or the feature gets added in the next point release. If y'all have a blog where I can donate to a "Buy the developers a beer" tip jar, send it on to me, I owe you.

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