Setting up development environment

[forummarcel]

Hello

After having installed the oxygen, i was trying to start working on the DITA OT delivered with oxygen. Apparently, there is a write protection on the oxygen installation so i cannot easily add and edit files to the DITA OT.

Is there a way around that? or should i link from my oxygen to another external DITA OT installation on my C-drive?

What is the optimal way in order to develop and edit xsl-transforms?

Best Regards

[Radu]

Hi Marcel,

You can copy the DITA OT which comes bundled with Oxygen to an external location and use it from there:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ta-ot.html

But it depends on what you need to do, if you want to make customizations for the PDF output for example, you can keep your XSLT code in a separate customization folder:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ation.html

Or if you want to customize the XHTML-based outputs, your CSS can be kept in a separate location and you can link to it by setting certain parameters in the transformation scenario.

Regards,
Radu

[forummarcel]

Hi Radu

The problem is the following:

So far i was running my scripts (ant-program/xsl-transforms) over eclipse on DITA-OT 1.7.5, which worked and gave me good results when launched from eclipse.

Since i now tried to execute exactly the same scripts located on the same place, but from within my oxygen (using the DITA-OT 1.7.5 as the dita-directory), nothing works anymore and i got plenty of error messages. I tried to launch a transformation scenario (based on the existing ones i.e. ANT or DITA OT), but they don't seem to provide me a good reference to getting started.

Is there some general setting which i could apply so i can use the oxygon environment for continuing my testing without too much of pain?

Best regards,
Marcel

[Radu]

Hi Marcel,

One alternative would be to install in Eclipse the Oxygen plugin for Eclipse, use Oxygen for editing and Eclipse for publishing.
If you have problems running ANT or DITA OT transformations from Oxygen I would need more details in order to help you. Maybe you can send an email to support@oxygenxml.com and attach to it the entire output received from the ANT process in Oxygen's DITA OT or ANT Console view.

Regards,
Radu