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Problem with Idiom FO transform
by Loreti, Wendy 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hello, I'm new here. I have a question: When I use the DITA OT transformation, the pdf is successfully created, but when I try to use the Idiom FO transformation, it chugs along, then stops and hangs with this in the log: 1071 ERROR [ main ] org.apache.fop.datatypes.LengthBase - getBaseLength called without context Does anyone know what that's about? Also, will this Idiom transformation create an index? The DITA one won't. 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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xsl recursive condition
by ivanmacculi＠libero.it 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi all, I've problem to select a value to one attribute: i need to change the content of one element and to select the value by the attribute of another element. Is it easy? sure, but problem is that i need to select the right element within all equal elements. Output is .xml It's like this: <bookstore> <books> <book ID=1>History of Italy</book> <book ID=2>History of Spain</book> <book ID=2/>Tales from China</book> </books> <other XML section> <hand IDM=1 title=Italy/> <hand IDM=2 title=Spain/> <hand IDM=3 title=China/> </other XML section> </bookstore> it will be like this: <bookstore> <books> <book ID=1>Italy</book> <book ID=2>Spain</book> <book ID=2/>China</book> </books> <other XML section> <hand IDM=1 title=Italy/> <hand IDM=2 title=Spain/> <hand IDM=3 title=China/> </other XML section> </bookstore> How can i get it? Thanks everyone for help.

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by ivanmacculi＠libero.it 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi all, I've problem to select a value to one attribute: i need to change the content of one element and to select the value by the attribute of another element. Is it easy? sure, but problem is that i need to select the right element within all equal elements. Output is .xml It's like this: <bookstore> <books> <book ID=1>History of Italy</book> <book ID=2>History of Spain</book> <book ID=2/>Tales from China</book> </books> <other XML section> <hand IDM=1 title=Italy/> <hand IDM=2 title=Spain/> <hand IDM=3 title=China/> </other XML section> </bookstore> it will be like this: <bookstore> <books> <book ID=1>Italy</book> <book ID=2>Spain</book> <book ID=2/>China</book> </books> <other XML section> <hand IDM=1 title=Italy/> <hand IDM=2 title=Spain/> <hand IDM=3 title=China/> </other XML section> </bookstore> How can i get it? Thanks everyone for help.

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xsl:result-document and Saxon-SA gives "Cannot write to a URI that has already been read"
by Andrew Welch 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hi, Using oXygen 10.2, this stylesheet runs as expected with Saxon B 9.1.0.6 (the output is <foo/>) <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="2.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:result-document> <foo/> </xsl:result-document> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> However if you change the transform engine to Saxon SA, it fails with: "Cannot write to a URI that has already been read: ....." cheers -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

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CSS to Indicate Element References a Graphic?
by Eliot Kimber 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

For using CSS in Author mode for arbitrary doctypes (in my case, an XSD schema), is there a way to indicate via CSS that a given element is a reference to a graphic? I didn't see anything in the Oxygen help under CSS. 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] parameters, catalogs, docbook, etc
by Robert Nagle 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

First, Sorin, Good to hear that you are considering an epub transformation for a future release. I'll be sure to make an announcement at www.teleread.org when that happens. There is a dearth of good tools to produce .epub files from source. So here is my understanding based on what you said: When the files are in a project, the xpr project file is an xml file containing the customizations specific to your project. That includes names of files, and the specifics of any customized transformation which you have added for the specific project. So you could find your customizations here. so docbook5.framework stores all the scenarios which will show up for the docbook5 global scenarios list? My main concerns here are 1)being able to find the xslt customizations after I make them (in the event that i need to run them via command line or use another application), 2)being able to use the same xslt customizations for a second project if I create another docbook project and 3))not accidentally deleting or altering the default transforms. I guess the general solution is to use projects as much as possible. I'm looking here http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/preferences-sharing.html I'm not quite sure what you are doing when you go to Configure Transformation Scenario and switch from GLOBAL SCENARIOS to PROJECT SCENARIOS and vice versa. Regardless of whether I select GLOBAL or PROJECT, they both show the same scenarios (the read-only scenarios indicated by a key icon and a customized scenario I have created myself). Is this normal? (My guess: I originally created them with GLOBAL SCENARIOS checked, and so that means they appear in the PROJECT SCENARIOS tab as well. But the rev). If I try to delete a custom scenario from either Project Scenarios or Global Scenarios and press ok, I see that the scenario i have tried to delete has not been deleted. What do I need to do to accomplish this? Reading through the archives, I see that you are trying to rework the UI for the transformations dialog. That would probably be a good thing. The thing that confuses me is why the same scenarios appear when you have PROJECT SCENARIOS checked as when would have GLOBAL SCENARIOS. Robert ****************************************** > Hello, > > If you store the scenarios at global level (the default setting) they > are stored in the user preferences in a subfolder of the user home > folder. If you want to share the scenario with other users you should > store it at project level or at document type level. > > If you work on a common project that you load in the Project view and > you share with other users you can store the transformation scenarios at > project level with the radio button Project Scenarios in the dialog > Configure Transformation Scenario that is opened by the action with the > same name on the toolbar Transformation and on the menu Document -> > Transformation. In this case you share the .xpr project file with other > users. > > You have a DocBook XML document so it matches one of the two predefined > DocBook document types (DocBook 4 and DocBook 5). If you store the > scenario at document type level it is saved in the .framework file of > that document type so you have to share the .framework file with other > users, that is frameworks/docbook/docbook4.framework or > frameworks/docbook/docbook5.framework. > > The epub transformation needs a zip application and a Ruby runtime so > the Oxygen installer should include them which means a bigger installer > file. We will consider a default epub transformation for a future version. > > > Regards, -- Robert Nagle 12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417 Houston, Texas 77082 713 893 3424 htpt://www.robertnagle.info

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Using cref, oxygen, and transforms
by Steve Matlock 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

I have two files, one with a topic and one with definitions: * TOPIC* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "Topic.dtd"> <topic id="CREF_TOPIC"> <title>Topic with crossref</title> <body> The best thing since sliced bread is <ph conref="cfs.dita#cfs/mpm"/>. </body> </topic> *DEFINITIONS* <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "Topic.dtd"> <topic id="cfs"> <title>Cross References</title> <body> <ph id="mpm">My Payment Method</ph> <ph id="stx">SuperTransactions</ph> </body> </topic> If I set this up & view in Oxygen 10.2, the first tile (TOPIC) displays the cref values just fine. When I run any of the default transforms in Oxygen (to PDF, HTML, etc.), the cref value is blank. I'm not getting an error in the transform - says it transformed fine. But cref isn't working. Clues on how to debug this? The cref is a major component of my documentation plans - I want to have pre-defined values that I can use in documentation so I don't need to update product names, release dates, and so on, inside the final documents.

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Author : copy/past - problem with the code U+0000
by Rogie Isabelle 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hello, When I copy/paste a text from Xpress in an xml element, I have this message: F [Xerces] An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the element content of the document. Is there a solution to avoid this problem? I use Author version 10.2 on Mac OS X. Best Regards, _______________________________________ Isabelle Rogie Database Chief Project Wolters Kluwer France

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parameters, catalogs, docbook, etc
by Robert Nagle 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi, I'm a relative xml newbie, and I'm trying to use docbook to generate .epub archives (docbook 1.7.4 has a xsl transform for that). I find I am lost in a lot of things having to do with the basic environment/customization. When you configure a transformation, you can edit the parameters by clicking parameters. I understand what is going on here. But I can't understand where the customizations you are making to parameters are written down. Suppose I bring my docbook files to a new computer without Oxygen and I must use the same customizations.Where does Oxygen store these values--in a text file somewhere? When you configure a custom transformation, where is the configuration information stored after you are done? Is there a path for project customizations as opposed to global customizations? Speaking of good transforms, it would be nice to setup a transform to epub format for docbook files (especially since the xsl file is basically done). Thanks. rj -- Robert Nagle 12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417 Houston, Texas 77082 713 893 3424 htpt://www.robertnagle.info

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Embedding transform history in oXygen output
by Karen Schneider 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi all, thanks again for all the help several weeks ago. Demo'ing oXygen in a project-wide DocBook documentation planning session was very useful. I am wondering if there is a way to automatically embed information about transformation history into HTML generated by oXygen. I'm thinking about chapters and articles, etc. produced by a distributed volunteer force where an editor upstream may have questions about the XSL stylesheet version, the date the file was produced, etc. I am thinking this metadata would probably work best as hidden comments. We can (and probably should) use our forthcoming style manual to require inserting this information regardless of the method of production, and enforce usage through the usual methods (bribes, pleading, public floggings, etc.); not everyone will be using oXygen, and some may be using batch files that effectively serve the same purpose. But I can see where downstream it would be useful to generate as much of this automatically as possible. -- -- | 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

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