[oXygen-user] Setting up catalogs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi,

If my understanding of the problem is correct then could the OASIS Catalog
files eventually be able to lookup local copies of external XML documents
referenced by URLs using the "xlink" element attribute?  If so this will be
fantastic.  If not can I ask for a feature that will allow this?

Thanks.


John

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Sorin Ristache
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 2:07 AM
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> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Setting up catalogs
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yes, URI catalog entries are ignored at validation time. We plan to 
> remove this limitation of the XML catalog resolver in one of the next 
> versions of Oxygen / Author, released probably in a few 
> months. Version 
> 9.3 which will be released in one or two weeks will not fix 
> this problem.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sorin
> 
> 
> David Linton wrote:
> > I'm evaluating Oxygen for our DITA installation and have 
> hit on a bit of a problem: everything works very well for the 
> DITA files, including XML catalog resolution for 
> specializations, etc., but links and the ditamap editor 
> aren't getting resolved.
> > 
> > I use URNs in links between source files, to allow authors 
> to have local copies of resources which live in our source 
> control system, such as
> > <topicref 
> href="urn:quative.tv:docs:quative/company/en_GB/concept/AboutQ
> uative.dita" />. The documentation[1] says that "the OASIS 
> XML catalogs present in the list maintained in the XML 
> Catalog Preferences panel will be scanned trying to map a 
> remote system ID (at document validation) or a URI reference 
> (at document transformation)"
> > 
> > If I read this correctly, this means you ignore catalog 
> entries for URIs at validation time, which would explain why 
> nothing is working. Is this the case, and if so, do you have 
> any plans to support URI links in upcoming versions of Oxygen ?
> > 
> > rgds
> > David Linton
> > Quative Limited
> > .
> > 
> > [1]http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/using-XML-Catalogs.html
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