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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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Make Enable Master Files Default For New Projects
by Eliot Kimber 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

When I create a new project I never don't want master files enabled but I don't yet have any (or know what they might be or want to be bothered identifying them at that moment). I find it annoying to have to respond to the "enable master files" prompt every time. Would be nice if I could set a preference that would make new projects automatically enable master files and go on. A small annoyance I realize, but when I'm creating a new project it's usually in the context of "oh crap, I need to do this new thing Right Now", so these two actions are in the way of me doing what I actually want to do, so the annoyance is multiplied more than it would be if I was creating a project in a calm and considered way, which I never am. Of course, I could be somewhat unique in this aspect due to the nature of the work I do and how I do it (which is to say, I'm always doing a million different things and always starting something new). Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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Testing Subject Schemes
by Khaled Aly 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Hi I'm running an elementary Subject Scheme test to learn how to use it later for producing a full taxonomy, followed the simple instructions at http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/subject-scheme-map.html. However, when using the attribute defined in the subject scheme map, and although auto completion recognizes its defined values; I get the error: Attribute "p-doc" must be declared for element type "p", where "p-doc" is the 'attributedef' name within the 'enumerationdef' element. Subject scheme file validates well and ditamap file references the subject scheme file. The three files are attached. Would appreciate any directions about this. Khaled ---------------------------------------------------------------- Khaled A.B. Aly, Senior Author & Analyst in ICT Technopsis Research; Cairo, Egypt (GMT+2)

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annotation formats in Relax NG
by Julian Reschke 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hi there, I'm looking at <http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/content-completion-schema-ann…> and I'm wondering, what HTML tags are supported in annotations in Relax NG. This: > The following HTML tags are recognized inside the text content of an XML Schema annotation: p, br, ul, li. They are rendered as in an HTML document loaded in a web browser: p begins a new paragraph, br breaks the current line, ul encloses a list of items, li encloses an item of the list. makes it sound as this is only supported for XML Schema, but at least <br> seems to work for Relax as well. Is anything else supported? (Looking for the ability to include a link, thus <a> in particular...) Best regards, Julian

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focus XPath/XQuery Builder view
by Jakob Fix 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi, Sometimes, having an (XQuery) file open, I'd like to do some experimentation in the XQuery Builder view. You add a couple of lines of code, try it out, etc. Then, I'd like to comment out a line or a selection using Ctrl-Shift-, in this view, but this doesn't work. Apparently, the focus for this type of action remains with the previous file, and suddenly you get a comment where you cursor is in this file (or, if a selection was active, around it). The behaviour is the same on Windows and Mac, latest 16.0, build 2014070913. These commands are listed under the "Document" menu item which is coherent with their behaviour (they apply to documents only, not to "buffers"), but I would argue that commands like this should be applicable in the window or view where the cursor is currently active, and this would be very useful there. Maybe that's not as easy as it sounds because of the Eclipse underpinnings? Could you consider this for a future improvement? cheers, Jakob.

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advice on epub scenario customization
by Andrew Rouner 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

I am creating an ebook in epub, MOBI and PDF formats from TEI XML. I want to use the built-in transformation scenario in oxygen to create the epub file. But I want to be able to customize the output too. I have seen that the following files are drawn on in the scenario: /Applications/oxygen/frameworks/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/tei.css /Applications/oxygen/frameworks/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/epub/tei-to-epub.xsl /Applications/oxygen/frameworks/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/profiles/default/epub/to.xsl I’ve tested modifying at least one of them to alter the output, which seemed to work. I’m looking for any advice on other files to modify in the process, or possibly other approaches on generating ebooks from TEI XML. Thanks, Andrew

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Applying a Transform Scenario to Just a Directory, Not Its Children
by Eliot Kimber 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

I have written an eXist-db xquery that imports all the files within a directory tree. One of the parameters is the directory to start from. If I apply this to a directory in the project view it appears that the transformation scenario is applied to all the subdirectories. I didn't see a way to turn off this behavior. Is it possible? For use from Oxygen I could modify my query to take a file as input and then import the directory that contains the file, but I was hoping to avoid that small complication. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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oxy_xpath with xinclude
by practice innovation 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hi there, I use oxy_xpath funktion in CSS like this oxy_xpath("string-join(distinct-values(./..//DT/text()),',')") which works very well with an XML like this: <TD> <D> <DT>..</DT> <D> <D> <DT>..</DT> <D> </TD> But if D elements are in XML modules included with XInclude <TD> <xi:include href="d1.xml"/> <xi:include href="d2.xml"/> </TD> No result is found (as expected first). But if I execute XPath in Author mode the results I'm looking for are found. Is there any chance to get this or another oxy_xpath working with xincludes? This oxy_xpath call is the value of "values" property in a popupselection control. So I could implement my own custom control, but I want to avoid this, if possible. Thanks for any hints Markus

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Setting saxon:line-length from transformation scenario
by Peter West 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

(Apologies if this doubles up.) Saxon has two useful variable for output: saxon:line-length and saxon:indent-spaces. These determine the respective output parameters. They can be set as attributes on xsl:output, but I would like to be able to set them in association with the transform scenario. Can this be done? Peter West He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

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epub3 epubcfi support
by Peter West 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

The EPUB3 sample index at http://carpeindexum.com/idpf/index_sample.xhtml contains the following gem:  <li id="four"><span epub:type="index-term">FourSquare</span>, <a epub:type="index-locator" href="epubcfi(/6/8[chap05ref]!/4[body01], /156[p142]/1:0, /157[p143]/1:0)">142-143</a>, <a epub:type="index-locator" href="...">150</a></li> Oxygen doesn't like it, but it seems to be kosher according to: http://www.idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html It doesn't look like a trivial fix. Is support for epubcfi validation in the pipeline? Peter West He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

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UI for Creating Key-Based Image Refs?
by Eliot Kimber 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Using 16.0 in Author mode with DITA, having created a key definition bound to an image, there doesn't appear to be a tool bar or menu item to insert an image reference to a key. I would expect either a separate Toolbar button analogous to the conref/conkeyref buttons or a single Insert Image dialog that offers both a URI and key selector when there are keys bound to non-DITA resources (or resources with known image types) in the current key-providing map. I'm trying to use the practice of having keys for all referenced resources, including images. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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Porting oXygen settings
by Wendell Piez 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi, I know I should know this, but where is a writeup of available options and features for porting settings from one copy of oXygen to another? I know that layouts can be saved out and reused (and I have done that) but I wonder what other settings file(s) might be useful to a clean installation of oXygen. I am setting up an entirely new system.... Thanks! Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^

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Oxygen XML search options in Eclipse plugin?
by Steven Anderson 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

I love using the XML search options when doing searches with Oxygen, but I don't see that option when I'm using the eclipse plug-in - is it possible to include XML search options when searching in eclipse? If so, can you tell me how? Thanks, Steve

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Automatic check in / update functionality?
by Roderik Dernison 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi, Is there already a plugin that updates the svn-repository when oxygen is started and commits when oxygen is closed? If not, will it be implemented? Or how much effort is it for a programmer to implement? Kind regards, Roderik Dernison ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------- Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Het bericht is alleen bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien het bericht niet voor u is bestemd, verzoeken wij u dit aan ons te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. This message shall not constitute any obligations. This message is intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please inform us and delete the message. ----------------------------------------------------------

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import order for docbook parameters: who wins?
by Robert Nagle 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

When you configure a docbook transformation, you can use the Parameters dialog to set the values for a parameter. Or you can set it in a customization layer in C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Author 16\frameworks\docbook\xsl\fo\docbook_custom.xsl My question is: which takes precedence? Can I assume that the values in docbook_custom.xsl will always override a value in the parameter dialogue box? Suppose the default value for some parameter value is "no" but I use the parameter dialog to change it to "yes", At the same time in docbook_custom.xsl I hard code it to "no". Who wins? -- Robert Nagle 6121 Winsome Ln #56C, Houston TX 77057-5581 (Cell) 832-251-7522 Carbon Neutral Since Jan 2010

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Re: [oXygen-user] Repeat fo:table-caption for a table that spans multiple pages question
by G. Ken Holman 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

At 2014-08-07 14:23 +0000, Coe, David E wrote: >Fo:retrieve-table-marker is not supported by >these processors. I have tried the various >methods of using fo:retrieve-marker that I have >found through several forums but I was not >successful in solving this specific problem even >though I did learn new stuff which allowed me to >get this far. The best I was able to do was use >fo:retrieve-marker for table caption in a >static-content area but it repeats the >table-caption on every page in the page header >instead of displaying directly above the table. *Every* page? From what I can see the pages before the table would be fine and the problem would only be pages after the table. >Below is my code snippet: >... ><fo:page-sequence master-reference="first"> ><fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before"> ><fo:table-caption> ><fo:block font-weight="bold" text-align="center"> > ><fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="table-caption-continued" >retrieve-position="first-starting-within-page" /> I think you need first-including-carryover in order for the last page with the table to work. >... ><xsl:template match="table"> ><fo:table-and-caption> ><fo:block> > ><fo:marker marker-class-name="table-caption-continued"> ><xsl:apply-templates select="title" /> ></fo:marker> ></fo:block> ><fo:block> ><fo:marker marker-class-name="table-caption-continued"> ><xsl:apply-templates select="title" /> - Continued </fo:marker> ></fo:block> That looks fine ... the first page of the table gets just the title, while the subsequent pages get the " - Continued". > ></fo:table-body> ></fo:table> ></fo:table-and-caption> ></xsl:template> What I don't see above is "turning it off" ... after the table you should have a block that defines the marker to be empty so that when it is retrieved on subsequent pages what is retrieved is nothing. There is helpful information on pages 257-260 (A4 version) or pages 259-262 (US-letter version) of my XSL-FO book that is available for free download on a "try and buy" basis at http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/#pfux .... if you decide not to pay for the book, please delete the copy that you download for free. I hope this helps. .. . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- 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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topic level profiling and the DITA maps manager
by Lionel MOIZEAU 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hi everybody, I have a question regarding DITA profiling and the DITA maps manager. Is there a way I could display profiling attributes set at topic level (not in the map) in the DITA map manager ? Thanks ! Lionel MOIZEAU Technical Information Department L-ACOUSTICS Tel : +33 (0) 1 69 63 23 99 Fax : +33 (0) 1 69 63 69 64 www.l-acoustics.com<http://www.l-acoustics.com/> Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Repeat fo:table-caption for a table that spans multiple pages question
by Coe, David E 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

How can I repeat the fo:table-caption for a table that spans multiple pages and add "- Continued" at the end of the table-caption on the subsequent pages. The tools I use are Oxygen Editor 16 as my XML editor and Arbortext Editor 6.1 to publish to PDF using its XSL-FO processor. Arbortext XSL-FO processor is equal to or slightly better than Apache FOP. At this time, I do not have the option to use a different FO processor. I prefer to try to solve it through XSLT and XSL-FO since I have more time and understanding invested in it, instead trying to learn how to create a FOSI file in Arbortext - I love learning but it takes time and deadlines seem to come too quickly. XSLT is fairly new to me and I am still learning; please forgive my ignorance if I stated something incorrectly in that regard. I am restricted to customer-provided DTD and XSL files even though I can modify the XSLT to solve a particular issue like I posed. It is my understanding that the XSL code implements the XSLT 2.0 and XSL-FO 1.1 standards. Fo:retrieve-table-marker is not supported by these processors. I have tried the various methods of using fo:retrieve-marker that I have found through several forums but I was not successful in solving this specific problem even though I did learn new stuff which allowed me to get this far. The best I was able to do was use fo:retrieve-marker for table caption in a static-content area but it repeats the table-caption on every page in the page header instead of displaying directly above the table. Below is my code snippet:  <xsl:template match="/"> <fo:root> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master page-width="8.5in" page-height="11in" master-name="first"> <fo:region-body margin-right="1in" margin-left="1in" margin-bottom="1in" margin-top="1in" /> <fo:region-before extent=".5in" /> <fo:region-after extent=".5in" /> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="first"> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before"> <fo:table-caption> <fo:block font-weight="bold" text-align="center">  <fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="table-caption-continued" retrieve-position="first-starting-within-page" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-caption> </fo:static-content> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after"> <fo:block text-align="center"> <fo:page-number /> </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-family="sans-serif"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="table"> <fo:table-and-caption> <fo:block>  <fo:marker marker-class-name="table-caption-continued"> <xsl:apply-templates select="title" /> </fo:marker> </fo:block> <fo:block> <fo:marker marker-class-name="table-caption-continued"> <xsl:apply-templates select="title" /> - Continued </fo:marker> </fo:block> <fo:table width="100%" table-layout="fixed"> <fo:table-column column-width="50%" /> <fo:table-column column-width="50%" /> <fo:table-header> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block font-weight="bold"> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/thead/row/entry[1]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block font-weight="bold"> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/thead/row/entry[2]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> </fo:table-header> <fo:table-body> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[1]/entry[1]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[1]/entry[2]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> <fo:table-body> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[2]/entry[1]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[2]/entry[2]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> ... </fo:table-body> </fo:table> </fo:table-and-caption> </xsl:template> I appreciate any assistance in trying to solve this problem. David Coe Senior Technical Editor 407.514.2332 Office 407.508.9959 Mobile david.coe(a)gdit.com<mailto:david.coe@gdit.com> E-mail www.gdit.com<http://www.gdit.com> Website General Dynamics Information Technology Defense Solutions Division Integrated Security and Instrumentation Solutions 12249 Science Drive, Suite 220 Orlando, Florida 32826

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New blog post: Customizing Oxygen to provide advanced editing support for a certain XML vocabulary
by Radu Coravu 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi everybody, I just wrote a new blog post about customizing Oxygen to add editing support for a certain XML vocabulary: http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2014/08/the-oxygen-sdk-part-2-frameworks.html A lot more could be said on this particular subject so I can elaborate more on certain aspects if necessary. Enjoy and feel free to write us if you have any feedback on it. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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Grammar checker and style checker plugins for oXygen
by Mike Unwalla 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hello, LanguageTool is a grammar checker and style checker (www.languagetool.org) You can integrate LanguageTool with oXygen (http://sourceforge.net/p/languagetool/mailman/message/32436496/) A term checker (www.simplified-english.co.uk) for Simplified Technical English (STE), specification ASD-STE100 (www.asd-ste100.org) uses LanguageTool. Thus, you can use the STE term checker with oXygen. Related article: www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic10675.html. Regards, Mike Unwalla Contact: www.techscribe.co.uk/techw/contact.htm

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Open oxygen with a specific project
by Steven Anderson 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

I use a lot of different projects. I'd like to be able to start oxygen and have it point at a particular project. I don't see any way to do that - is it possible? -- Steve

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HTML5 transformation
by Peter West 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

I'm transforming EPUB2 files to xhtml5 for EPUB3. Here's the beginning of one of the EPUB2 files. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy</title> <meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> ... </head> My xsl file has, inter alia, this: <xsl:output method="xhtml" html-version="5"/> When I do the transform, I get html5 output, including the meta element, like so: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy</title> ... </head> Oxygen and Jing do not like http-equiv="Content-Type" Uh-uh, no way. They want Default-Style or Refresh, and nothing else will do. I went through every contortion I could think of to recast teh meta element, to no avail. I could generate a second meta element, but I could not get rid of the original meta. I was as though that meta was hard coded into the html5 transformer. So I have two questions. Is it possible to circumvent the copy of the existing head subelements, including meta? Why is the xslt so stubborn about http-equiv="Content-Type", when the validation rejects it for html5? Peter West "...the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, finding one pearl of great value, sold all that he had and bought it." Peter West "...the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, finding one pearl of great value, sold all that he had and bought it."

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OSX: Using Java 7 With Oxygen
by Eliot Kimber 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

I have just updated my OS X system to Java 7. I get Java 7 as the java version from the command line: contrext01:DITA-OT ekimber$ java -version java version "1.7.0_65" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_65-b17) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode) And I was able to configure Eclipse to use the Java 7 runtime. However, Oxygen is still using the Java 6 JRE and I can't see how to change it. The instructions in the help that specify using the Java Preferences utility are out of date as that utility is no longer provided by Apple and the Oracle Java preferences doesn't show anything except the Java 7 runtime. If I look at the system properties in the About Oxygen all the java-related properties reflect Java 6, not Java 7, but I don't see any place that these are actually being set (not in my .bashrc, not in the Oxygen app plist files). What do I do to get Oxygen to use the 1.7 JRE? Thanks, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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XSLT keys in the outline view
by Wendell Piez 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Hi, I can't remember why key declarations are not included in the XSLT outline view, and in any case wonder whether this could not be revisited. What was the reason again? Cheers, Wendell -- Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^

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hashtag on docbook 5 fop-PDF output -- why?
by Robert Nagle 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

HI, there, I am helping a client use Oxygen to produce a PDF of my Docbook 5 project. (In case you are wondering, this is NOT the same client I asked about last week --- but a different one from two years ago!) The docbook 5 project is valid. When I run the out-of-the-box Docbook 5 PDF (with FOP), I can generate the project on my machine. But my client generates a file successfully (with no errors or messages) with the latest XML Editor -- except it's nothing but # characters.... I seem to remember having encountered the same error before, but I don't remember what I did with it. Both of us have Win 7 64 bit versions. I Have Author 16 while my client has Editor 16 which was just installed today. We have made no customizations yet to the transformation. I'm guessing it's an encoding error, but I'm not sure where to go fix it (or why a clean Editor install with a general Docbook 5-fop-pdf would give that kind of message). Do you have any ideas? On another note, I want to thank Sorin for helping me with my problem last week. Robert -- Robert Nagle 6121 Winsome Ln #56C, Houston TX 77057-5581 (H) 713 893 3424/ (W) 832-251-7522 Carbon Neutral Since Jan 2010 http://www.robertnagle.info

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