Hi, Kate -- Sorry for the business process solution, but we simply put all trademarked items in a list at the beginning of each book as a boilerplate topic. This meets legal requirements and doesn't r

Hi, Mari - We had a similar situation with reference parameters shared by the documentation and a user interface. The writer wanted to centrally manage the API information and have it feed into the as

Hi, We'd like to publish a map full of key defs to shared topics. Keydefs don't show up in output even if you remove the processing-role attribute. Besides maintaining a second map with topicrefs, is

Hello, We are developing Schematron rules for our organization. This rule identifies when a topic is missing a shortdesc: <pattern> <rule id="R_008" context="*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')]"> <as

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Hi, Erland -- That seems interesting. Is it a separate preprocessing plugin? Can you share implementation details? Thanks, - Nick

Hi, folks - Is there a way to automatically create a glossary based on the terms used in an information set? We typically maintain a glossary at the end of our PDF and HTML documents. Right now, we us

Proprietary systems vs open standards often have this dichotomy. It would be interesting to see some sort of heat map showing CMS penetration / DITA adoption in Europe.

You can set the collection-type attribute to "sequence" on the map's topicref element for the topics. It works for one sequence, but I have not tried it with a stage1, stage2 sequence. Take care, - Ni

We created an outputclass for handling the case of keyword, term, and abbreviated-form elements. It works quite well. One issue that we still have is handling plural forms. - Nick

hi, all - We have many tasks with only one step. Some writers add the step to the short description and others use steps-unordered to render the single step as a bullet. What's the best practice for h

Hi, everyone. Just putting this out there in case other people have this capitalization problem. I built a working solution in the term template. Fortunately, this also works for the keyword element,

Hello, Does anyone have a recommendation for handling lowercase glossary terms that appear as the first word in a sentence? Some of our glossary terms start with a lowercase letter, and this causes pr

Hi Folks, We have a PDF outputclass that turns wide tables and figures to landscape orientation. This is great, but also creates two problems: 1. The header and footer are sideways on that page. 2. It

Hi Marsha, You can use maps to define key spaces and then set the keyref attribute on your topic keyword elements to reference that key. For example, define the key with a keys value of "product" as "

Hi Folks, We need to publish documents that use commas for the decimal mark and other units of measurement used by the European Union. Does anyone know how to do this? I'm thinking that it's akin to a

Hi, AnandG. You can try using character encoding instead. So : is : Here is more: http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-printable-characters/colon-ascii-code-58.html We have noticed that doing this fix

Hi Scott, Seems odd to only have one topicref element in your map if you have multiple topics to reference. If you indeed have several topic references, adding the chunk="to-content" attribute on all

We use folders to organize content in a file repository. The HTML transform works fine when we use direct references down to subfolder resources (href=“folder/123.xml”) or up to shared resources (href