Reading DITA-OT variables (en.xml) in Author mode CSS

[jonas]

Dear oXygen team,

in my DITA-OT PDF plugin, I use the Customization/common/vars/en.xml file to add legal content.
The generation of legal content is triggered by data elements in the map file, for example: <data name="disclaimer" value="t001dis102"/>

As the value provides only an ID, I want to show a description of the legal content in Author mode. The description would be something like "Disclaimer on xxx" and is already available in the en.xml file.

I managed this in the css file:

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*[class ~= "topic/data"][name='disclaimer'][value='t001dis102']{

            content:

            oxy_editor(

            	type, text, 

	     	edit, "@value", 

		editable, true, 

		);

	    ": " 

	    oxy_xpath(

	    	"doc('file:/T:/myDITAFramework/DITA-OT/plugins/myPDFPlugin/Customization/common/vars/en.xml')//*[@id='t001dis102-	dt']/text()"

	    	);

;

}

But I did not succeed to generalize it. I tried to use other variables inside the oxy_xpath expression, but it did not work.
I want to do the following:

• Generalize the statement for any @value attribute. I need to reuse the @value attribute of the data element in my oxy_xpath expression.
• As we are sharing our framework via SVN, I need to access en.xml with an relative path (from the css file or from the framework directory). The following did not work:
  • doc('../DITA-OT/plugins/myPDFPlugin/Customization/common/vars/en.xml') --> relative from CSS
  • doc('${env(myDITAFramework)}/DITA-OT/plugins/myPDFPlugin/Customization/common/vars/en.xml') --> using environment variable
  • using catalog files
  • using URL in SVN repository (authentification problems)

Do you have any ideas for oXygen 16.1?

Best regards,
Jonas

[Radu]

Hi Jonas,

I would do that something like:

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*[class ~= "topic/data"][name='disclaimer'][value]{

            content:

            oxy_editor(

               type, text,

           edit, "@value",

      editable, true),

       ": "

       oxy_xpath(

          oxy_concat("doc('", oxy_url("../../DITA-OT/plugins/myPDFPlugin/Customization/common/vars/en.xml"), "')//*[@id='", attr(value), "-   dt']/text()")

          );

}

So that I can compose the xpath expression using the oxy_concat function and calling other Oxygen functions to get the attribute value and to compute an absolute URL relative to the CSS.

Regards,
Radu

[jonas]

Hi Radu,

thanks a lot. That works.

Best regards,
Jonas