Generate single xml file from ditamap

[jspychka]

Hello,

It would be great if Oxygen could transform a ditamap (regular ditamap or bookmap) as a single xml file and then back to the ditamap. This would be extremely useful for translations. Ideally, the single file would be in xliff format, but I think xml would do too. An out-of-the-box transformation, or tranformations, that handle this would add enormous value to the dita part of the Oxygen editor.

I find that you are close with the "Open map in editor with resolved topics" feature in the DITA Maps Manager. Saving this from the editor as a single xml file would be great. But the problem is getting the xml (or xliff) file back into the ditamap.

Thanks,

John

[Radu]

Hi John,

Thanks for the feature request, it will be discussed.
In the meantime you can find here a presentation for DITA to XLiff and back (using the Swordfish project from what I've figured):
http://dita.xml.org/blog/dita-to-xliff- ... t-it-means

Regards,
Radu

[jspychka]

Thanks, Radu. I did try Swordfish but could not get it to work. Word on the street is that there may be an xliff round-trip tool included in a future version of the DITA-OT. That would be sweet.