Oops. Say, for example, class="+ map/topicref " vs class="- map/topicref ".

Hi, I'm trying to match on topicref and am getting unexpected results. Just curious, I notice that some class attributes include a + and others include a - sign. What does this mean? Say, for example,

Hi mdslup@gmail, You can try: 1. Set generate.copy.outer = 3 when running DITA-OT. Try setting it to 1 as well to compare the differences. You can find more info at: https://www.dita-ot.org/dev/parame

Hi Yves, We actually require that glossaries match the case of the glossary as if it were in a dictionary, so we don’t use capitalized words in the surface form unless the word is by definition capita

Hi, Is it possible to specify the PDF output file name with ditamap metadata? The PDF file name is the ditamap name and we’d like to customize this for each project. Take care, - Nick Sent from mobile

Hi Sandra, Do you use Oxygen? If so, you can search across a folder collection using an XPath expression //topicref//topicref on all *.ditamap files. You may also run a search with Notepad++ or Sublim

Hi Lisa, For developers who collaborate with writers on actual content, we prefer Markdown since that plays well with DITA. However, for the most part our engineers provide Word docs or Confluence pag

Hi, In DITA-OT 2.5.3, the base XHTML plugin does not seem to render glossary keys in the index.html file. What's the best way to go about rendering these keys so that the strings are available in the

Hi again, Rick -- I double checked now that I'm at a computer. Here's what we did. We override the dita2html.xsl file in the XHTML plugin with these changes in our custom XHTML plugin: <!-- For glossS

Hi Rick, Instead of matching to glossBody, you want to specify an empty template for each class you’d like to exclude. For example: glossentry/glossAbbreviation glossentry/glossSynonym glossentry/glos

Hi, Writers have requested to be able to publish directly from their XML authoring application instead of going through the CMS cloud environment to publish. We'll use Perforce and the writers can poi

Thanks, Rodolfo. Fluenta works beautifully. Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile

Hi, We're trying to add diagnostic errors to a DITA-OT 2.3 html webhelp plugin. We created a new "messages.xml" file that follows the syntax described in the DITA-OT docs and added the feature extensi

Hi, We have a PDF requirement for technical specifications to include inline cross references that show only the section number, no title or page number. I have added a runtime parameter to the PDF fo

Hi! When localizing dita content, how do you typically handle key references such as product names and glossaries? Do you run any scripts to resolve keys before sending the content to L10n vendors? Ar

Hi, Is it possible to automatically chunk topics into the level 4 heading in HTML? For example, the navigation should never show any topic lower than level 4 and anything lower than level 4, say level

Hi Eliot and Radu, Thanks for your replies. Sorry for the delay... holiday abyss. The expectation was that including two elements in the main map would render two distinct outputs, one for each ditava

Hi, I'm testing the ditavalref element in a ditamap. It's very convenient to embed the ditaval in the input map! However, while I can get one ditaval to publish, I cannot embed two side-by-side. This

Hi! I have a ditamap topicref @outputclass that I’d like to get into the html file output of the topics. I’ve copied the dita2xhtmlImpl template that matches topic/topic mode =child.topic and can manu

Hi Matt, Perhaps this is a font issue? Take care,- Nick Sent from mobile