Empty link with keyref

[abasanskaya1]

Hi,

I'm trying to use keyrefs in a DITA XML file so that links show up when the file is included in one map and no link shows up when the file is included in another map. I'm following the example in http://oxygenxml.com/doc/m/dita1.2_spec ... _keys.html. Specifically, I'm looking at #6 in the "Redirect a link or xref" section:

Author 5 wants to turn the link into just plain text (not hypertext) - for example a citation of a print-only magazine article.

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<topicref  keys="a">

  <topicmeta>

    <linktext>This is just text.</linktext>

  </topicmeta>

</topicref>

When I include a topicref with no href in my ditamap and try to generate the PDF using Apache FOP, however, I get the following error:

Engine name: DITA-OT
Severity: error
Description: Missing attribute on fo:basic-link: Either external-destination or internal-destination must be specified.
Start location: 8001:0
URL: http://www.oxygenxml.com/internalHelp/f ... s-dita-pdf

This what I included in my .ditamap file (which is a bookmap):

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<topicref keys="CONTAINER" scope="local">

            <topicmeta>

                <linktext>CONTAINER</linktext>

            </topicmeta>

  </topicref>

and this is what I included in my dita file with the link:

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<xref keyref="CONTAINER" href="../markets/c_market_container.dita">CONTAINER</xref>

I tried playing around with this, but could not get it to work. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
AB

[Radu]

Hi,

So if in a DITA topic we have:

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<xref keyref="CONTAINER">CONTAINER</xref>

and the topicref in the DITA Map where the key is defined does not point to an href resource, indeed the PDF should contain only the plain text, without a link specified on it.
So the fact that the PDF fails (probably using the DITA Open Toolkit 1.8.5 publishing engine which is bundled with Oxygen) is a bug.
I tested with DITA Open Toolkit 2.1 (which will come integrated with Oxygen 17.1) the same behavior and it no longer reports the error when building the PDF.
So you could try and download DITA Open Toolkit 2.1 separately and use it from Oxygen to publish to PDF:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/1 ... ta-ot.html

Regards,
Radu

[abasanskaya1]

Hi Radu,

Thank you for your response!
AB