Dita XHTML chunk 1 file

[kenzoclauw]

Hello,

I am currently working on a dita plugin to generate a txt file containing all topics from a ditamap based on the XHTML plugin.
XHTML converts all dita topics to a seperate file.
Is there a way to chunk all topics to 1 big file?
There should be a chunk attribute in dita but i cant figure out how to make it work with the XHTML plugin.

Thanks

[Radu]

Hi,

On the DITA Map <map> root element you can set the attribute chunk="to-content". The DITA content should be output all in one contiguous HTML output file.

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os ... l#chunking

Regards,
Radu

[kenzoclauw]

I understand that you can add a chunk attribute to the map in a ditamap file but i want the plugin to always make 1 file without having to chance all my ditamaps.
Is there a way to apply a chunk attribute to the maps?

[Radu]

Hi,

Actually the DITA to Web Slides plugin does that (as a coincidence I suggested some changes on that behavior a couple of days ago):

https://github.com/doctales/org.doctales.reveal

If you look inside its plugin.xml, it has a pre-processing extension:

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<feature extension="depend.preprocess.chunk.pre" value="setchunk"/>

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and then the build file defines the setchunk target like:

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    <!-- Automatically set "chunk='to-content'" on the temporary input file. -->

    <target name="setchunk" description="Set @chunk to-content on the temp input bookmap" if="isRevealJS">

      <replace file="${dita.temp.dir}${file.separator}${dita.input.filename}" token="chunk=.to-content." value="" encoding="UTF-8"/>	

      <replace file="${dita.temp.dir}${file.separator}${dita.input.filename}" token="<bookmap " value="<bookmap chunk='to-content' " encoding="UTF-8"/>

      <replace file="${dita.temp.dir}${file.separator}${dita.input.filename}" token="<map " value="<map chunk='to-content' " encoding="UTF-8"/>

	</target>

What you need to be careful about is that your "setchunk" template will get called no matter what transtype is executed so in the case above it has a dependency on the isRevealJS condition which is set in the same build file if the publishing is of reveal JS type.

As an alternative I think DITA OT 2.1 (Oxygen comes bundled with DITA OT 1.8 ) can force a certain chunking on an entire DITA Map via a parameter but I have not tested that yet.

Regards,
Radu