Subheadings to be visible in ToC

Post by **TechWri** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:32 am

I'm making web helps (from old xml-files) and the page has text like this:

Heading 1
text

Heading 2
text

Heading 3
text

These should all be on the same page, so in the same dita-file. But the table of contents should look like this:

Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3

Is there any way of doing this without separating the subheadings to other dita-files?

Post by **TechWri** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:35 am

In the ToC there should be an indent before Heading 2 and Heading 3, it didn't show in my post. It should be seen from the ToC that these are subheadings for Heading 1.

Post by **Radu** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:42 am

Hi,

In a DITA topic you can add other DITA topics.
So if your DITA topic would have the content like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">

<topic id="topic1">

  <title>Heading1</title>

  <body>

    <p>Topic paragraph</p>

  </body>

  <topic id="topic2">

    <title>Heading2</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

  <topic id="topic3">

    <title>Heading3</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

</topic>

then your DITA Map could reference individual topics from it for the TOC like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Map//EN" "http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/dtd/map.dtd">

<map title="Title">

    <topicref href="topic.dita#topic1">

        <topicref href="topic.dita#topic2"/>

        <topicref href="topic.dita#topic3"/>

    </topicref>

</map>

That's the only solution I can think of without splitting the headings in different topics.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **TechWri** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:37 am

I'm using consepts (not my idea...) so this wouldn't work. I'll have to think about this a bit further...

TechWri

Radu wrote:Hi,

In a DITA topic you can add other DITA topics.
So if your DITA topic would have the content like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">

<topic id="topic1">

  <title>Heading1</title>

  <body>

    <p>Topic paragraph</p>

  </body>

  <topic id="topic2">

    <title>Heading2</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

  <topic id="topic3">

    <title>Heading3</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

</topic>

then your DITA Map could reference individual topics from it for the TOC like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Map//EN" "http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/dtd/map.dtd">

<map title="Title">

    <topicref href="topic.dita#topic1">

        <topicref href="topic.dita#topic2"/>

        <topicref href="topic.dita#topic3"/>

    </topicref>

</map>

That's the only solution I can think of without splitting the headings in different topics.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **Radu** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:28 pm

Hi,

If your composite looks like:

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<!DOCTYPE dita PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "ditabase.dtd">

<dita>

  <topic id="topic1">

    <title>Heading1</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

  <topic id="topic2">

    <title>Heading2</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

  <topic id="topic3">

    <title>Heading3</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

</dita>

Then the same DITA Map content I mentioned in the last post should render a similar result.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **TechWri** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:55 pm

Nope, I had concepts (concept id's/conbodys etc.), but I decided to replace them with the topic-structure on this document page and got the thing working. On a web page you can't see the difference between topics and concepts so this will do.

TechWri

Radu wrote:Hi,

If your composite looks like:

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<!DOCTYPE dita PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "ditabase.dtd">

<dita>

  <topic id="topic1">

    <title>Heading1</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

  <topic id="topic2">

    <title>Heading2</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

  <topic id="topic3">

    <title>Heading3</title>

    <body>

      <p>Topic paragraph</p>

    </body>

  </topic>

</dita>

Then the same DITA Map content I mentioned in the last post should render a similar result.

Regards,
Radu

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