[oXygen-user] WebHelp output from JATS/BITS source?

Thu Mar 15 12:08:21 CDT 2018

Eliot,

Thanks for the hint. I will try this route based on your suggestion.

Vincent

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1. Re: WebHelp output from JATS/BITS source? (Eliot Kimber)

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:41:07 -0500
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Some time ago I created an experimental JATS-to-DITA transform for a client. It wasn’t that hard but it did use DITA for Publishers elements to capture all the JATS stuff that reflects publishing details for which out-of-the-box DITA does not have direct support.

Unfortunately because this was for a client of a former employer I don’t think I can share it but I can say that the transform is only about 300 lines, although I’m not sure how complete it is. It looks like it was just trying to handle single journal articles, rather than a more complete book.

But I wouldn’t image something to handle complete JATS books would be that much harder. Looking at the code now it’s mostly about mapping the JATS metadata to DITA metadata and then just mapping the content elements and structures to maps and topics, which is a pretty direct mapping.

Here's an example template:

<xsl:template match="mixed-citation |
person-group |
string-name |
surname |
given-names |
article-title |
volume |
year |
issue |
source |
lpage |
fpage |
elocation-id |
publisher-name |
edition |
etal |
conf-name |
conf-date |
comment |
month |
publisher-loc |
uri |
xxxx
">
<ph outputclass="{name(.)}"><xsl:apply-templates/></ph>
</xsl:template>

It’s definitely something that could be reimplemented pretty quickly.

Cheers,

Eliot

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Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] WebHelp output from JATS/BITS source?

Hello,

Unfortunately, with current implementation it is not possible to publish JATS/BITS to WebHelp output.
I have logged your feedback as an improvement request in our issue tracking tool.

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Ionela

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On 3/14/2018 12:45 AM, Lizzi, Vincent wrote:

The oXygen WebHelp feature produces very good web presentations based on source documents in DITA or DocBook format. I have some documentation that was created in BITS format (which is based on JATS) which I would like transform into HTML using oXygen’s WebHelp transformation. Also, since I am working with the JATS format quite often I would like to be able to write my documentation in JATS format and use oXygen’s WebHelp rendering to produce an HTML version.

So my question is, what would need to be done in order to produce WebHelp output from JATS or BITS? Can the WebHelp transformation be extended to use a different XML format as input, or would it be easier to transform JATS to DITA or DocBook and then run the WebHelp transformation? Or, is this so non-trivial that it should be a feature request for oXygen?

Thanks,

Vincent

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