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XML Author: Chokes on Big Images?
by Robert Nagle 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Two days ago I asked a question about Oxygen's ability to process lots of images. Thanks for the reply by the way with the tip about XEP. I have a related question which is annoying me, and I think it is an Oxygen-related question (and not an XEP question). In Docbook 5 I am using xincludes, and I am using 300 dpi images (with dimensions ranging from 1200 x 1500 more or less). They are jpg file at 100% quality and range from 600K to 1 MB. One of the files is 2300x1500 In my Docbook 5 project I scale the image so that the size when printed is about 3 inches. But here's the thing. After I add as few as three images to a chapter (and sometimes less), XML Author pretty much grinds to a halt. The chapter is an xinclude file. (I'm in Windows Vista 64 bit and have 4 gigs RAM, and RAM usage by Oxygen goes up to about 700,000 or 800,000 MB RAM. I can continue editing, but very slowly. Once I switch back to XML mode, everything is fine. I have gotten no validation errors or anything like that, and the xml file itself is not overly big (30 K). I've tried to open the same xml file on a different machine, a 64 bit Windows 7 with 4 Gigs RAM. I receive the same slowdown. Is this typical? Do you have any suggestions about how to avoid this slowdown? It's gotten so bad that I've had to comment out the images until I have to produce the PDF (a real pain). At the moment each of my mediaobjects have 2 imageobjects. The 2nd is an empty folder for a web version of the same image. If worse comes to worse, I could delete this extra imageobject, but eventually I need to add it. <screenshot> <mediaobject> <imageobject role="html"> <imagedata fileref="web-images/"/> </imageobject> <imageobject role="fo"> <imagedata fileref="fo-images/history-byline.jpg" contentwidth="10cm"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>.</phrase> </textobject> <caption> <para>If your content is being versioned, you will see a History hyperlink near the byline. </para> </caption> </mediaobject> </screenshot> -- Robert Nagle

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Help with XProc - Relax NG validation pipeline
by John Madden 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi guys, (First of all, forgive this long missive...) I'm trying to write and XProc step that: 1. takes as input (a) an XML document and (b) a Relax NG schema (or-- in an alternative design--parameters that are the file system location of (a) and (b)) 2. runs the validation using Jing 3. outputs the Jing error messages (if any, wrapped appropriately in an xml container element) to an output port 4. passes through the input XML document unchanged (or, possibly, annotated in some way) to another output port (note: step 3 is exactly what Jing itself does when invoked via the command line, namely outputs error messages, if any, to system out) Okay, so you say, "What's your problem? Just use <p:validate-with-relax-ng>." Aha, but, the output of <p:validate-with-relax-ng> is defined as "a copy of the input, possibly augmented by application of the [RELAX NG DTD Compatibility]." There is no output port defined for validation error messages. If the validation fails (and @assert-valid is true), then validation failure will throw an XProc (e.g. Calabash) error. But nowhere do I see any built-in capability in <p:validate-with-relax-ng" to recover the specific validation error messages produced by the validation engine (in this case Jing). Okay, fine. So I decide I'll do my own declare-step and I'll use <p:exec> to manually invoke Jing via its command line interface. Here's what I have so far: <p:declare-step xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step" xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"> <p:input port="source"> <p:empty/> </p:input> <p:output port="result"> <p:pipe port="result" step="validate-with-rng"/> </p:output> <p:exec args="-jar /path-to-jing/jing.jar schema.rng doc.xml" command="java" cwd="/working-path" name="validate-with-rng" result-is-xml="false" wrap-result-lines="true"/> </p:declare-step> Fine, now when my document has validation error, I get nicely wrapped Jing error messages on the output port, that e.g. look something like this: <c:result> <c:line>/working-path/example.xml:54:35: error: value of attribute "foo" is invalid; must be equal to "x", "y" or "z"</c:line> <c:line>/working-path/example.xml:207:16: error: element "bar" incomplete; missing required element "something"</c:line> </c:result But now I've got a problem. I want to make this whole validation step generic, so instead of hard coding the value of //p:exec/@args, I'd like to pass in the locations of (i) Jing, (ii) of the schema, and (iii) of the input document as parameters (or maybe as little xml document rather than as p:parameters). Then I'd like to compute the jing command line. Uh-oh. I've tried all kinds of ways to get this to work, but there are problems. For one thing the value of //p:exec/@args seems to be untypedAtomic. When I try to construct a string and put it in as a value of //p:exec/@args, Calabash complains about the type being inappropriate. What about giving Jing the schema and document as inputs via a pipe? That doesn't seem to work -- Jing wants its paramaters on the command line. So, can somebody help me out of this thicket with some suggestions? Thanks, John P.S. The official specification of <p:validate-with-schematron> strikes me as much better than that of <p:validate-with-relax-ng>. The signature of <p:validate-with-schematron is: <p:declare-step type="p:validate-with-schematron"> <p:input port="parameters" kind="parameter"/> <p:input port="source" primary="true"/> <p:input port="schema"/> <p:output port="result" primary="true"/> <p:output port="report" sequence="true"/> <p:option name="phase" select="'#ALL'"/>  <p:option name="assert-valid" select="'true'"/>  </p:declare-step> So <p:validate-with-schematron> has a standard output port named "report" that makes the error messages from the validation engine accessible. By contrast, <p:validate-with-relax-ng> lacks any such port in its signature: <p:declare-step type="p:validate-with-relax-ng"> <p:input port="source" primary="true"/> <p:input port="schema"/> <p:output port="result"/> <p:option name="dtd-attribute-values" select="'false'"/>  <p:option name="dtd-id-idref-warnings" select="'false'"/>  <p:option name="assert-valid" select="'true'"/>  </p:declare-step> I don't like that! Does anyone else but me dislike it too?

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Article: oXygenXML XML Editor got me out of my emacs shell
by George Cristian Bina 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, Jim Fuller wrote a few days ago a nice article about oXygen: http://www.xmltoday.org/content/oxygenxml-xml-editor-got-me-out-my-emacs-sh… Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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XML Author: how many images can Oxygen process?
by Robert Nagle 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

I am using oxygen to create a print book on docbook with XEP. I'll be adding about 50 or 60 (or more) 300 dpi screenshots, most in the range of 1 - 1.5 mb. How many images could my Docbook project theoretically have without straining RAM and system resources considerably? Will Oxygen or XEP choke at some point? -- Robert Nagle

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Re: [oXygen-user] Oxygen spawning tons of FTP connections. Slowing things to a crawl!
by Adrian Buza 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Why would you evaluate Oxygen with an old version released 9 months ago? A lot of fixes/improvements have been implemented since that version. Please download the latest build of Oxygen 11.2(2010061615) from our site: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html The same license can be used. Regards, Adrian Casey Jordan wrote: > I'm evaluating oxygen with a trial version, not sure if that matters. > It's 11.0 build 2009110412. > > Right now I am manually killing the tcp connections every so often. > > Cheers, > > Casey > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Adrian Buza <adrian(a)sync.ro > <mailto:adrian@sync.ro>> wrote: > > Hello, > > What version and build number of Oxygen are you using(Help -> About) ? > > I could not reproduce this with the latest build of Oxygen > 11.2(2010061615). > I've monitored the connection with wireshark and Oxygen opens a > new connection each time a file is opened but after loading the > file it closes the FTP connection(ftp: quit). > There could be a problem here since Oxygen doesn't reuse the same > FTP connection to transfer multiple files but other than that I > don't see multiple simultaneous connections that would remain open. > > If you open an XML file in Author mode and it has several > referenced images, it will first open a connection for the main > file, transfer it and close the connection then it will do the > same for each image. > > Regards, > Adrian > > Adrian Buza > oXygen XML Editor and Author support > > Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202 > Fax: +40-251-461482 > support(a)oxygenxml.com <mailto:support@oxygenxml.com> > http://www.oxygenxml.com > > > Casey Jordan wrote: > > Hey guys/gals, > > I am using oxygen 11 on ubuntu 9.4. I have a bunch of remote > files that I "Imported" into my project. However oxygen is > spawning a ton of ftp connections, like 3 for every file I open. > > I have tried to adjust my preferences to see if this changes > anything and it has no effect. > > The outcome is that after opening over 5 files my computer > slows down and the ftp server rejects any more connections I > try and make. > > Anyone experienced something like this before? > > Cheers, > > Casey > > -- > -- > Casey Jordan > Jorsek Software LLC. > "CaseyDJordan" on LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook > Cell (585) 348 7399 > Office (585) 239 6060 > Jorsek.com > > > This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee(s) > and may > contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or > exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended > recipient, > please be advised that any disclosure copying, distribution, > or use of > the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have > received > this communication in error, please destroy all copies of the > message, > whether in electronic or hard copy format, as well as > attachments, and > immediately contact the sender by replying to this e-mail or > by phone. > Thank you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com <mailto:oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com> > http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > > > > > > > -- > -- > Casey Jordan > Jorsek Software LLC. > "CaseyDJordan" on LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook > Cell (585) 348 7399 > Office (585) 239 6060 > Jorsek.com > > > This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee(s) and may > contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, > please be advised that any disclosure copying, distribution, or use of > the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received > this communication in error, please destroy all copies of the message, > whether in electronic or hard copy format, as well as attachments, and > immediately contact the sender by replying to this e-mail or by phone. > Thank you.

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Oxygen spawning tons of FTP connections. Slowing things to a crawl!
by Casey Jordan 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hey guys/gals, I am using oxygen 11 on ubuntu 9.4. I have a bunch of remote files that I "Imported" into my project. However oxygen is spawning a ton of ftp connections, like 3 for every file I open. I have tried to adjust my preferences to see if this changes anything and it has no effect. The outcome is that after opening over 5 files my computer slows down and the ftp server rejects any more connections I try and make. Anyone experienced something like this before? Cheers, Casey -- -- Casey Jordan Jorsek Software LLC. "CaseyDJordan" on LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook Cell (585) 348 7399 Office (585) 239 6060 Jorsek.com This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that any disclosure copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy all copies of the message, whether in electronic or hard copy format, as well as attachments, and immediately contact the sender by replying to this e-mail or by phone. Thank you.

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DITAVAL content is not being used appropriately in Oxygen 11.2 when transforming to PDF using DITA-OT
by Steve Matlock 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Summary: DITAVAL content is not being used appropriately in Oxygen 11.2 What I’m doing: 1. I have a set of DITA tasks and concepts that are included in a Map file that is included in a Bookmap file. 2. The tasks and concepts have tags that use the audience attribute with a value set to the locale I want to include or exclude, such as audience=”US” or audience=”UK” 3. Some of the tasks and concepts use conrefs to other content that also includes the audience attribute set to the value I want. 4. In most cases I specify a single value for the audience. 5. In some cases, I specify multiple audiences such as <p audience="XML US">text goes here</p> for content that is for XML users in the US only. 6. I have a set of DITAVAL files that contain the include and exclude statements, such as <prop action="include" att="audience" val="US" /> and <prop action="exclude" att="audience" val="UK" />. They also contain include/exclude statement for other values such as <prop action="exclude" att="audience" val="XML" />. 7. My Oxygen Transform refers to the DITAVAL file I want to use. I specified it by browsing to it in the dialog box so the path is correct. 8. At transform time, the DITA-OT transforms the content into a PDF. This all works fine in that the file builds. However, the audience attribute for “US” or “DE” or whatever is not being respected for the transform, while the audience attribute for the other values (such as audience=”XML” or audience=”HTML”) is working. A. I’m at a loss to figure out what is causing the problem. Is it specifying more than one value in the audience (line 5, above)? Is this not the right way to specify multiple audiences? B. Is the problem that I’m specifying a value to include (XML) and a value to exclude (US) in the same tag (see line 5, above)? If (B) is true, then how would I specify content that should be included for XML users, but only if they're in the US? I have multiple users (XML, HTML, PHP, and so on) and multiple locales (UK, US, DE, and so on). I'm probably missing some very obvious feature of DITA, but that goes without saying.

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Profiling on MarkLogic
by Florent Georges 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hi, From the documentation, it is not clear, but it seems the profiling support is only available for Saxon (and not for neither eXist nor Marklogic). Is that correct? Regards, -- Florent Georges http://fgeorges.org/

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Re: [oXygen-user] Default content for new files
by Adrian Buza 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hello, You can't customize the new XQuery document but you can create an XQuery template file(e.g. mytemplate.xquery) and copy it to [oxygen-installation-folder]/templates. Afterwards when you go to File -> New -> 'From templates' you will find your template in the list. Regards, Adrian Adrian Buza Oxygen XML Editor support Ingo Freitag wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to define the initial content of new files (i.e. for XQuery)? > > Best regards, > > Ingo > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user >

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Default content for new files
by Ingo Freitag 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hello, is it possible to define the initial content of new files (i.e. for XQuery)? Best regards, Ingo

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