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Running transformation scenario
by Tommy Nordgren 15 May '09

15 May '09

Is it possible to run a transformation scenario from the command line? [Mac OS X - make based builds] The reason I want to do this, is typesetting a programming book, where xinclude files are generated from source code, marked up with special comments ------------------------------------------- Engineers supporting greenpeace: Comparable to Afroamericans who wants to join the Ku Klux Klan ---------------------------------------- Tommy Nordgren tommy.nordgren(a)comhem.se

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Annoyance in Insert Topic Reference Dialog
by Eliot Kimber 15 May '09

15 May '09

I'm creating documents that use the DITA 1.2 DTDs. For DITA 1.2 we've added a number of specializations of topicref. The effect is that when I pop up the Insert Topic Reference dialog to insert a topicref, the topicref element type defaults to "anchorref", rather than "topicref", even though I would almost never want "anchorref". Would it be possible to either default to "topicref" or, more usefully, be able to configure a per-map-type default topicref type or sequence of preferred types (given that not all topicref types will be valid in a given insertion context, e.g., within bookmap)? Even if it just remembered the last value I used that would probably be sufficient. As it is, I have to remember to set that value each time. Note that I'm primarily using the "create reference to current document" mechanism, rather than creating a bunch of references at once, as I author new topics and then add them to my map as I go along. 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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New Outline View for XSLTs: Very Nice
by Eliot Kimber 14 May '09

14 May '09

Just noticed the new outline view for XSLTs that includes all included/imported templates. Very nice. 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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ID Setting Extension for DITA Authoring
by Eliot Kimber 14 May '09

14 May '09

I'm using Author to create DITA documents that have nested topics. An annoyance is that topics require the id= attribute, so having inserted a nested topic, I then have to set the ID even though I don't really care what the ID is. My questions: 1. Is there already a sample Oxygen extension that assigns IDs that I can use or adapt for this? 2. If the answer to (1) is no, where should I look for guidance on how to implement such an extension. 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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looking for a good XSLT IDE
by Lars Huttar 13 May '09

13 May '09

This blog post and comment thread are not mine, but I thought they would interest the Oxygen developers. Maybe you have a response to the statements made about Oxygen. http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/weblog/CommentView,guid,ca560933-6d05-4bbc-… ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A good xslt IDE A simple demand nowdays - a good IDE. Almost a ten years have passed since xslt has appeared but still, we're not pleased with IDEs claiming xslt support. Our expectaions are not too high. There are things however, which must be present in such an IDE. 1. A notion of project, and possibly a group of projects. You may think of it as a main xslt including other xslts participationg in the project. 2. A code completion. A feature providing typing hints for language constructs, includes, prefixes, namespaces, functions, templates, modes, variables, parameters, schema elements, and other (all this should work in a context of the project). 3. A code refactoring. A means to move parts of code between (or inside) files and projects, rename things (functions, templates, parameters, variables, prefixes, namespaces, and other). 4. Code validation and run. 5. Optional debug feature. We would be grateful if someone had pointed to any such IDE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:54:42 PM UTC I can recommend oXygen XML Editor. IMHO it could satisfy nearly all your requirements, except providing namespace prefixes which sometimes works and sometimes does not. Altought it's written in Java it's pretty fast and has best code completion I have seen so far. You will have to try code refactoring on your own, I do not use it much. Maybe you would want to try evaluation version of IntelliJ IDEA with plugins XPathView + XSLT-Support and XSLT-Debugger. It's primarily Java IDE but with use of mentioned plugins, writing XSLT is much easies and "enjoyable". Best advantage of IDEA are advanced refactorings (provided by both IDEA and plugins) and easiness of creating new ones. I hope you will find this comment somehow useful. Josef Josef Pavlas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:45:27 PM UTC Josef, Consider an example provided by xslt 2.0 spec: "...For example, if stylesheet B includes stylesheet A, stylesheet C includes stylesheet A, and stylesheet D includes both stylesheet B and stylesheet C, then A will be included indirectly by D twice. If all of B, C and D are used as independent stylesheets, then the error can be avoided by separating everything in B other than the inclusion of A into a separate stylesheet B' and changing B to contain just inclusions of B' and A, similarly for C, and then changing D to include A, B', C'." Unfortunately oXygen does not provide acceptable code completion and refactoring for such A', B', and C' modules, as it never looks defitions in including modules. We never tried IntelliJ IDEA, and we shall try it. Thank you for your feedback! Vladimir Nesterovsky (the rest deleted)

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Showing Section Spectitles
by Eliot Kimber 12 May '09

12 May '09

I added this entry to my local copy of topic.css in order to display the spectitle= value for sections that specify it: *[class~="topic/section"][spectitle]:before { display: block; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 2pt; content: attr("spectitle"); } 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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Re: [oXygen-user] Blank DocBook output with chunk.xsl
by Karen Schneider 12 May '09

12 May '09

Sorin, ok, I'll go back and look at that. There isn't a book on oXygen, is there? The help only gets me so far. I do like it though -- what a big step up from the freebies! Karen On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Sorin Ristache <sorin(a)oxygenxml.com> wrote: > Hello, > > The HTML chunks are created in the folder set with the parameter base.dir. > If you do not set the parameter the chunks are created in the folder of the > XSLT stylesheet as for any relative file path specified in an XSLT > stylesheet. > > For example you can duplicate the Docbook HTML scenario, change the XSL URL > to ${frameworks}/docbook/xsl/html/chunk.xsl and set the output directory in > the base.dir parameter: > > base.dir=D:/temp/test/docbook/ > > Maybe we should add a predefined scenario called Docbook HTML - Chunking. > > > Regards, > Sorin > > > Karen Schneider wrote: > >> I can use DocBook chunk.xsl successfully outside of oXygen which is why I >> ask this here. I have read the documentation but assume I am >> overlooking/misinterpreting something (probably obvious...). I set up a >> transform that under XSLT/XSL URL says: >> >> ${frameworks}/docbook/xsl/html/chunk.xsl >> >> I have left output alone. Running either Saxon 6.5.5 or xsltproc on valid >> DocBook 5 files, the transform produces completely empty files--not even >> declarations or anything, just foo.html without anything in them. >> >> Thanks again for yesterday's help! >> >> -- >> -- >> | 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 <mailto:kgs@esilibrary.com> >> | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com >> | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009! >> | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oXygen-user mailing list >> oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com >> http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user >> > -- -- | 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 | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009! | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen

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Blank DocBook output with chunk.xsl
by Karen Schneider 12 May '09

12 May '09

I can use DocBook chunk.xsl successfully outside of oXygen which is why I ask this here. I have read the documentation but assume I am overlooking/misinterpreting something (probably obvious...). I set up a transform that under XSLT/XSL URL says: ${frameworks}/docbook/xsl/html/chunk.xsl I have left output alone. Running either Saxon 6.5.5 or xsltproc on valid DocBook 5 files, the transform produces completely empty files--not even declarations or anything, just foo.html without anything in them. Thanks again for yesterday's help! -- -- | 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 | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009! | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen

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html validation error
by Lars Huttar 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hello, Often when I copy and paste HTML code from somewhere, and edit the resulting page in Oxygen, I get a validation error in http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd For example, when the DOCTYPE at the beginning says <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> I get the validation error: F [Xerces] The declaration for the entity "ContentType" must end with '>'. If I click on this error message, it takes me not to my html document, but to http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd, to the following declaration: <!ENTITY % ContentType "CDATA" -- media type, as per [RFC2045] --> The middle of those three lines is highlighted. I could understand if something in my own HTML were invalid; but this appears to be saying that the standard DTD provided by W3C is not well-formed. I'm not a DTD guru, but I would be very surprised if that were the case. Is this a Xalan bug, then? This is not a showstopper for me, but it does make it more complicated for me to do validation on the html I'm writing. Thanks, Lars

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oXygen on XP and XInclude subdirectories in DocBook
by Karen Schneider 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, I am new to oXygen and am trying to wrap my head around an XInclude question. I'm planning a proof-of-concept project for DocBook. My local environment is Windows XP and I am committing files to our Linux-based public repository via svn. where all hrefs are in the same subdirectory it's easy to see how to do this. I'm trying to clarify how to make this happen in Docbook using oXygen (and -- where this becomes an oXygen question -- get them to validate). In the xi:include statements, do I use a pattern of file:///directory/filename.xml ...? I include a snippet of work in progress, if that helps clarify my question. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <book version="5.0" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> ... etc. ... <xi:include href="/Intro/Introduction.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" /> <xi:include href="/Installation/Installation.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" /> <xi:include href="/Sysadmin/Administration.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" /> -- -- | 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 | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009! | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen

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