Should we make the note more striking, maybe use bold font for it? Perhaps. I went back in and saw the note this time - I totally missed it before. My question is, though, if the attributes are already defined in the schema that the project is using, why doesn't oXygen automatically import them? I ...

Thanks Radu.

What you have shown me here is different from what I have been doing. It's a great clue though, and I will spend some time studying/experimenting with it.

Thanks again.

I am trying to redevelop our technical documentation out of Word and into DITA. But I just ran into a brick wall - a tall one at that. Like most technical documentation, our's is riddled with acronyms - acronyms that change on the boss' whim. So my document title might be: " CMES-BCA FN110: NCM...

Thank you. I have updated my code to do the correct replacements. Finding the control codes was fun!

I have an application that converts Word documents to DITA, and in the process it scans each paragraph for illegal characters. The original documents include left and right quotes, as well as regular double quotes, angle brackets. etc. My process converts the standard five: " " ' &apos...

Thanks, Radu. I sort-of got it working by redefining the otherprops thing. (Sort-of, in that sometimes it works, sometimes not, but I can figure that out.) So the upshot of your explanation is that although the oXygen Window allows you to enter anything you want, it really doesn't allow you to defin...

I have watched the videos on setting up conditional profiles, and have read up in DITAVAL, but I cannot figure out the secret handshake. As I understand it, and as it is implied by the fact the oXygen "Editor/Edit Modes/Author/Profiling/Conditional Text" window allows me to define my own c...

Radu, First - let me apologize for the extremely poor grammar. I should have proof-read more carefully. When I re-read it it was painful! :shock: :shock: Thanks for your response. After reading it and some other sources, I think understand I some of my problems. Concepts are whole elements only - no...

I am trying to use conkeyrefs, and if I can't get this to work I can just bag my project because it's success hinges on this feature. The problem I am having is multi-fold. Conkeyrefs I insert from the DITA menu don't get translated in the editor; those that I created manually get translated in the ...

Never mind!

It turns out there were some invalid characters still in the individual source files, namely an ASCII #1. Getting them out solved the immediate problem.

Hi. I am new to the DITA processing arena, and I am having some difficulty. I have a valid MAP, and valid DITA files. Of the 22 topic files, 19 are getting processed, but three are failing with a message " Error! java.io.FileNotFoundException ". Here's an extract from the error log: [xslt]...

Thanks. That helps.

So to create that one without the NLs, the code would be

<xsl:variable name="test">2</xsl:variable>

Right?

You mean to tell me that every time you create a variable, a newline is added to:

a) the end of the variable itself, or
b) the output stream

I wonder who thunk up that one?

Thanks for the info.

The translate worked, but I'm really curious as to where the line feeds were coming from. The thing I never liked about scripting or macro languages is what they would do to you - not for you, and this is an example.

How do I make any progress writing this stuff when it adds stuff I don't want?

I have run it in debugger mode, and the value of the $datext variable as shown in the Variables view is "American Eagles&nbsp;for $5&nbsp;", but the output is "American Eagles&nbsp;&#xA;for $5&nbsp;" It's the &#xA that's screwing me all up - it prevents th...

George, Thanks for the reply. Although not a direct answer, it put me on the right track and I'm getting what I want. I have a different problem now. I am getting extra line breaks right in the middle of the formatted text. They are interfering with the function call. I don't know where they are com...

I am fairly new to XSLT, so this may be simpler than I think. I need to pass some formatted data into a function to display as a popup when the user hovers over a link element. I have a vendor, price and date that I want formatted as “from x for $9.99 on m/d/yyyy”. I have templates set up to han...