Oxygen 17 DITA-OT transform problems

[misty]

We are using DITA-OT 1.8.5, and have configured Oxygen scenarios to use our own DITA-OT for transforms. These work fine in Oxygen 16. When I try to run them in Oxygen 17, I get this error for HTML5-based transform:

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System ID: /Users/misty/docs/cloudera.ditamap

Scenario: D4P

Input file: /Users/misty/docs/cloudera.ditamap

Engine name: DITA-OT

Severity: fatal

Description: Parameter parentId is not declared in the called template

Start location: 466:69



System ID: /Users/misty/docs/cloudera.ditamap

Scenario: D4P

Input file: /Users/misty/docs/cloudera.ditamap

Engine name: DITA-OT

Severity: fatal

Description: Parameter topicref is not declared in the called template

Start location: 244:61

For the PDF2 transform using XEP, again in the same DITA-OT as above, I get this (much less informative) error:

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System ID: /Users/misty/docs/introduction.ditamap

Scenario: DITA Map PDF

Input file: /Users/misty/docs/introduction.ditamap

Engine name: DITA-OT

Severity: fatal

Description: Transformation failed.

And in the log is this:

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/Users/misty/tools/DITA-OT/plugins/org.dita.pdf2/build.xml:150: The following error occurred while executing this line:

/Users/misty/tools/DITA-OT/plugins/org.dita.pdf2/build_xep.xml:106: Java returned: 1

I am able to run the transforms using ant at the command line with no problem, and like I said, they worked in Oxygen 16.

A colleague also replicated this issues.

[Radu]

Hi,

You say that you have configured Oxygen scenarios to use our own DITA-OT for transforms.
How exactly did you do that? Did you duplicate the existing transformation scenarios or did you edit the "DITA" document type configuration in the Document Type Association Preferences page?

Oxygen 17.0 comes with a totally different frameworks folder so all changes you made to the DITA document type configuration in Oxygen 16.1 are not ported automatically to 17.0.

One more thing, Oxygen 17 has a new DITA Preferences page in which you can set very easily the path to the main DITA OT folder used by the application. In this way you will no longer need to edit the predefined transformation scenarios, they will just work with the main configured DITA OT.

Regards,
Radu

[misty]

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this. The idea of resetting everything and starting over has been a bit daunting.

Our DITA-OT is version 1.85 and lives in a Git repository that we all clone locally. We have created and exported transformation scenarios in Oxygen which point to this DITA-OT rather than Oxygen's built-in one. This works fine in Oxygen 16.

We have also exported a preferences file from Oxygen 16 that writers can use to quickly get their settings synced to our standards. This is in Git as well. I had assumed that this file would work on Oxygen 17 and imported it, along with the transformation scenarios. I'll take the time to start over from scratch and re-create the configuration and transformation scenarios for Oxygen 17, and get back to you with the results.

[misty]

Redoing the config and the transcenarios from scratch seems to solve the problem. Thanks!