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[ann] oXygen users meetup - San Francisco and other October events
by George Bina 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi everyone! If you happen to be around San Francisco on October 21st it will be great if you can join the oXygen users meetup! This is a free event but registration is required. You can find more details and register at: http://oxygenxml.com/events/2014/meetup-san-francisco.html I would like to take this opportunity to thank our customer Salesforce for hosting this meeting and to our special guest Eliot Kimber. You can find an overview of more October events where you can meet us below: * we will be at Lavacon in Portland (Oct 13-15) where we exhibit and present on XML review and authoring in the browser and on mobile devices http://lavacon.org/2014/ * we were invited by the STC Silicon Valley Chapter (Oct 20) to show some oXygen tips - everyone is welcome to join this meeting: http://www.stc-siliconvalley.org/2014/07/11/october-20-2014-tips-with-oxyge… * the oXygen users meetup San Francisco (Oct 21) with multiple oXygen related presentations: http://oxygenxml.com/events/2014/meetup-san-francisco.html * we will exhibit at Information Development World in San Jose (Oct 23-24) and demo oXygen review and editing across devices: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/86671/ Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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Custom colors for element tags: -oxy-tags-color and -oxy-tags-background-color
by Yves Barbion 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi oXygen I'd like to use custom colors for various element tags in my Author view of oXygen XML Author, for example yellow tags for step/cmd and green tags for info. I have found this Help topic, but it does not really tell me where I can find the css file to customize: http://oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/topics/custom-colors-for-element-tags.ht… Any ideas? Thanks -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu

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EPUB 3.01 schemas
by Peter West 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

I earlier installed the html5-document-30.rnc schema to solve some validation problems with epub 3. I have run into another problem with the package file, and have downloaded the set of 301 schemas from idpf. Has anyone tried to install this set of schemas in the oxygen frameworks directories? Peter West "...her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little."

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Using XQuery Update Modifies Whole Document
by Eliot Kimber 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

I suspect this is a limitation or unavoidable consequence of how XQuery update works, or at least how Saxon does things, but I wanted to check. If I have a DTD-based document, e.g., a DITA map or topic, and apply an XQuery update to it using Saxon EE, I noticed that the entire document is updated such that the DOCTYPE declaration is removed and all defaulted attributes are now explicit in the instance, which is obviously not to be desired. Is there any way to avoid this behavior? My alternative is to use XSLT of course but I was trying to use XQuery update as being more convenient for certain types of enhancements to existing documents, namely adding attributes to existing elements. Thanks, Eliot ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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Author Mode - CSS style(s) in effect
by Mary McRae 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

... subtitled: Why is <aff> generating a blank line in my display? When viewing an XML document instance in a browser such as Chrome, I can view the document in developer mode which allows me to select a portion of the document in the display area and then, in the lower section of the webpage, view the markup source as well as the CSS that has been applied. In oXygen, I can see anything and everything about the XML markup (and choose exactly what information I'd like displayed in the side frames), but I can't see exactly what CSS rules are being triggered for any particular element in context, making stylesheet development and debugging cumbersome. I can view the same document in a browser and use the development tools as an aid (basically switching back and forth from browser to oXygen), but in one particular situation (which I now find myself in) the browser display is fine but oXygen is doing something funky and for the life of me I have no idea why. Is my head buried into the sand so deep that I'm missing something in the view menu that will display the CSS? If not, has this feature been requested in the past? And if not, please consider this a new feature request. Mary P McRae XML Strategist and Technical Project Manager, IQ Solutions

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Re: [oXygen-user] Author Mode - CSS style(s) in effect
by John Kirkilis 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

As a user, I've also registered an enhancement request for a CSS inspector in Oxygen. In the meantime, I've resorted to duplicating selectors and setting debug colors to a background to detect padding and margin issues or colorizing text or setting other attributes in CSS to detect which selector is getting fired, which makes the whole trial and error process very time consuming. It is analogous to sprinkling printf statements in your code to debug a program. It's possible, but it's much more time consuming and error prone than going into a debugger to tell it to pause when part of your code is attempting to alter a particular variable, or set a particular attribute in this case. In the meantime, Syncrosoft has been very responsive if you send them your framework. I would be satisfied for a while if there was an Author Mode preference debug switch to dump a text trace of which attributes were being set by which selectors in which file. It would be an interim solution until the intricacies of a developing a GUI CSS inspector could be prioritized and conquered. At least with such a trace, a user could search in reverse chronological order to see where an attribute was last set in the cascading sequence. If they would allow the use of wildcard strings to specify which elements, attributes, values, and CSS files to filter by, it would be even better. If there was an option to dump a CSV file of such data, I could do the filtering in a spreadsheet if I had to. Another option for such an implementation would be to dump the data into one of Oxygen's tabular output views where sorting and filtering could be done by the same criteria I mentioned earlier. My 2 cents. John

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RAM settings for oXygen JVM
by Wendell Piez 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi, I am running with 16GB RAM on 64-bit Windows 7. Is there any reason for me not to give -Xmx4096m in the .vmoptions? Does it much matter? (My files are numerous and not small these days.) Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^

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[Ann] DITA-OT day - Munich 2014!
by Sarah Draper 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

******************** Join our team at the DITA-OT day - Munich 2014! We're pleased to announce that we're hosting a special event this year on the post-conference day of the DITA Europe Conference in Munich. If you've plans to attend DITA Europe why not extend your stay and join us on November 20th? Registration is free and attendees will get the chance to participate in the numerous sessions that we've got planned. Take a look below at who will be joining us for this, the first dedicated DITA-OT event. Be prepared for an interesting and no doubt intensive day! *Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit:* Hosted by Kristen James Eberlein - Eberlein Consulting LLC and Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee *Looking under the hood of the DITA Open Toolkit and DITA Open Toolkit PDF plug-ins without fuss, muss, or writing XSL-FO *- Both sessions hosted by Jarno Elovirta - main DITA-OT developer *PDFs from the DITA Open Toolkit: The Easy and the Not So Easy* - Hosted by Leigh White - DITA Specialist, Ixiasoft *Extending the DITA Open Toolkit: How crazy can you get?* - Hosted by Robert Anderson - IBM *DITA Open Toolkit PDF generation with CSS* - Hosted by Radu Coravu - oXygen XML Editor *RNG to DTD and XSD using the DITA Open Toolkit* - Hosted by Eliot Kimber - Contrext *DITA Open Toolkit in the wild* - Moderated vendor discussion *Quo Vadis? *- Panel Moderated by George Bina - oXygen XML Editor You can find out more or register for the event at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2014/dita-ot_day.html#dita-ot2014_registrat… But hurry, spaces are limited! ******************** Sarah Draper Director of Channel Sales & Marketing M: +44 (0) 7890 371908 Email: sarah_draper(a)oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com

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Re: [oXygen-user] cross-references in author mode
by G. Ken Holman 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Hi, Mary! When using <xref> in DocBook and you click on chain-link icon or grayed-out identifier you will jump to the target location. It happens not to link the cited text (even though the element itself is EMPTY) so that could probably be a new feature in the DocBook framework. I suggest you check how it is done in the DocBook framework to get clues how to do it in your own framework. I hope this helps! . . . . . . Ken At 2014-09-05 19:19 +0000, Mary McRae wrote: > I'm using Author mode to perform some visual QC on converted > documents (JATS DTD). Is there a way to make footnote, table, and > figure xrefs live? That is, to turn the xref element content > ("Figure 2" in the example below) into a hypertext link that, when > clicked, places the cursor at the start of the actual footnote, > table, or figure? > >For example, make: ><xref ref-type="fig" rid="DAWN11-1215_fig2">Figure 2</xref> > >Link to this: ><fig position="anchor" orientation="portrait" id="DAWN11-1215_fig2"> -- Contact us for world-wide XML consulting and instructor-led training | Free 5-hour lecture: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/video.htm | Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ | G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com | Google+ profile: http://plus.google.com/+GKenHolman-Crane/about | Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal | --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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cross-references in author mode
by Mary McRae 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Hi, I'm using Author mode to perform some visual QC on converted documents (JATS DTD). Is there a way to make footnote, table, and figure xrefs live? That is, to turn the xref element content ("Figure 2" in the example below) into a hypertext link that, when clicked, places the cursor at the start of the actual footnote, table, or figure? For example, make: <xref ref-type="fig" rid="DAWN11-1215_fig2">Figure 2</xref> Link to this: <fig position="anchor" orientation="portrait" id="DAWN11-1215_fig2"> Mary McRae | XML Strategist / Technical Project Manager | mmcrae(a)iqsolutions.com

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