Whole-topic change bars

[garyZ]

I'm using Ixiasoft with the oXygen Author 17.1 plugin editor and Antenna House for PDF output generation.
We use the rev attribute to flag newly added text, and a ditaval file to produce change bars on this text in PDF output for reviews.

The system works great, except when I add a rev attribute value to a top-level topic element (<reference>, <concept>, or <task>) where the whole topic is new to a particular revision. I want a change bar to cover the entire topic text, but instead no change bar at all is produced.

I tried instead to add a rev attribute value to the <xxxbody> near-top-level element, but the body elements don't include rev attributes.

The best I can do is to add a rev attribute value to the sub-elements, like every <section> in the topic, which creates discontiguous change bars on all sections, as expected. It's not precisely the effect I was going for, but more important, it's a lot more work to set all those individual rev attribute values, instead of just a single one for the whole topic.

Does anyone have any idea how to get this working (or please tell me if I'm doing something wrong to get what I want). Thanks in advance for any help and info.

-- garyZ

[Radu]

Hi Gary,

You should take a look at the issue I posted here:

https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/2459

Problem number 3 is the one which you are having trouble with. It has a small XSLT workaround posted on it.

Regards,
Radu