Has anyone gotten dita working with EPIC 5? I'm getting compilation errors when trying to create a new doc type in EPIC. Here's one of the errors: Dtgen.exe Parser Error: While parsing file C:\dit

I am writing a little DITA importer for my toy content management system XIRUSS-T (xiruss-t.sourceforge.net). XIRUSS only supports schemas (and even if I supported DTDs I wouldn't use DTD external ide

I have the following syntax in a concept file. <link href="test.xml" role="next" scope="local" type="concept"></link> After I run the transform (map2html.xsl) the html includes the following: <div><p>

Hopefully this will be my last post for a while. I'm trying to use conref and am not getting the results I want. testin1.xml contains: <dita> <concept id="rss001"> <title>Reference Services and Resour

I'm still trying to fully understand the state of the current DITA schemas (as provided in the 1.3 IBM DITA distribution). Here are the results I get to date: - Stylus studio and oXygen 1.4 both produ

Hi, I am testing the processing of maps and topics. I will create a website with a toc. I am using the map2WebHTMLTOC.xsl from dita13. Topic transformation is ok, the output-directory (outputdir) is "

Hy, can anybody give me a tip? Sorry, my English ist not the best ;-) I need a lot of safety notes for use in operating instructions of machines. These shall be managing as _topics_ (not as a part of

Hi, I have to move my asp application to .NET. I'm trying to process XML DITA documents with XSLs. Because all processing is based on the class attribute, I have a lot of templates that match expressi

Hi all, I have some questions about best practices for applying metadata to Topics. 1) Some metadata attributes can be assigned at the topic level (using %select-atts;). But the prolog or metadata ele

Using the dita13 toolkit, is it possible to create a table of contents that will appear in a PDF generated through FO? If it _is_ possible, where is the setting to enable generating a table of content

Are there any plans to create a DITA editor for Eclipse or WebSphere Studio? Joel

Hi, DITA users: We've been thinking about the reference documentation for API libraries (for instance, Java class libraries) and what kind of DITA specialization would be appropriate. We came up with

In preparation of our DITA experiment, I would like to find out just what are the software tools available on the market (commercial or free) that could support DITA implementation TODAY. Please provi

Hi, I have been asked to present Nokia experience of moving to DITA and modular XML in general at the UK Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators annual conference on 9th October. I think t

Hi, During the process of structuring our existing content to DITA, I noticed that the <indexterm> element cannot be inserted within the following elements: <title> <dt> <term> Is there a reason why a

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I'm new to DITA, and just beginning to convert some old documents. I have several related questions about p. Pardon me if the answers should be obvious. · When a context (e.g., result, dd, or li) can

I am new to this list. I want to be able to put the following content in dita: 1. Do this. 2. Do that. 3. Do one of the following: * Click [icon] to do option a. * Click [icon] to do option b. As I un

One of the subjects on the older, developerWorks "dita" newsgroup concerned conditional processing. Recently the question came up in a conversation, so here is a copy of the post that was particularly

1) if dtd A specializes dtd B. - should all elements in A only specialize elements of B, - or may they specialize any element in any package which A specializes. rephrased: If package Z specializes pa