XHTML: ${dita.plugin.org.dita.xhtml.dir} not resolved with c

[Frank Ralf]

Hi,

I'm trying to make the DITA XHTML transformation work with our customized framework. I changed the dita.dir parameter of the transformation to point to the DITA-OT of our custom framework. Unfortunately the transformation fails with the following error message:

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BUILD FAILED

[...]\DITA-OT\build.xml:133: The following error occurred while executing this line:

[...]\DITA-OT\plugins\org.dita.xhtml\build_dita2xhtml.xml:72: 

[...]\DITA\abc_spec\topics\${dita.plugin.org.dita.xhtml.dir}\resource does not exist.

Looks like the OT cannot resolve the ${dita.plugin.org.dita.xhtml.dir} variable correctly. Is this a configuration issue or a bug?

Kind regards,
Frank

[Radu]

Hi Frank,

I'm not sure what exactly you are doing, maybe copying plugins from a newer DITA OT to an older DITA OT. I'll tell you how this usually works in the DITA OT.
Usually the main DITA OT build file DITA-OT/build.xml contains at some point property declarations which map property names to locations where each DITA OT plugin directory is located.
For example if I open the main build.xml from the DITA OT 1.8 which comes bundled with Oxygen 16.1 I can find in it at some point:

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<property name='dita.plugin.org.dita.xhtml.dir' location='${dita.dir}\plugins/org.dita.xhtml'/>

That property is then later used in the build_dita2xhtml.xml.

Probably that property declaration is missing from your DITA-OT/build.xml. Usually the property declaration should be added automatically by running the DITA OT Integrator if the plugin DITA-OT\plugins\org.dita.xhtml is present.

Regards,
Radu

[Frank Ralf]

Hi Radu,

Thanks for your quick response. I will have a closer look but you are probably right because we did some manual tampering with the build.xml file ...

Kind regards,
Frank

[Frank Ralf]

You were right, Radu. The following line was indeed missing from our build.xml file.

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<property name='dita.plugin.org.dita.xhtml.dir' location='${dita.dir}\plugins/org.dita.xhtml'/>

I put it in again and everything works fine.

Many thanks again!
Frank