Search found 909 matches

by chrispitude
Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:40 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Adding Many Ditamaps to Find Unreferenced Resources
Replies: 7
Views: 1418

Re: Adding Many Ditamaps to Find Unreferenced Resources

I would also find this useful, and just like for jmorales, the tricky aspect of the context menu idea (which would still be useful!) would be when the .ditamap files are distributed throughout some large directory structure and thus are not easily selectable in the Project view. On my Windows laptop...
by chrispitude
Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:14 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Term Lists (.tdi) file usage
Replies: 2
Views: 607

Re: Term Lists (.tdi) file usage

Hi John, Your thought about accumulating learned words in the term list, then periodically moving them to a Hunspell dictionary is an interesting one! I think I will implement this in our environment. To start, I will configure the term file location to be in our Oxygen/Git project (${pd}/...), then...
by chrispitude
Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:28 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: "Export DITA Map" function without filtering option
Replies: 8
Views: 957

Re: "Export DITA Map" function without filtering option

Hi Christina, Note that some operations do consider what content is hidden by exclusion. For example, if Show Excluded Content is unchecked and you run a refactoring operation on the "Current DITA map scope", then any topic files hidden by the profiling conditions are excluded from the ref...
by chrispitude
Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:14 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: "Export DITA Map" function without filtering option
Replies: 8
Views: 957

Re: "Export DITA Map" function without filtering option

Hi Christina, Some operations, such as refactoring operations, will skip files that are excluded when the Show Excluded Content filtering option is unchecked : image.png This is a great feature and we rely on it for some of our workflows. However, I tried an experiment and the Export DITA Map functi...
by chrispitude
Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Integrating two webhelp outputs
Replies: 8
Views: 2210

Re: Integrating two webhelp outputs

Hi everyone, Today one of my writers mentioned that some product teams are talking about combining our three largest help collections into an even larger collection. This would put total publishing runtime at several hours. I mentioned this discussion and shared a link, and she pointed out that if s...
by chrispitude
Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: WebHelp TOC Level Definition
Replies: 3
Views: 486

Re: WebHelp TOC Level Definition

Hi ML, I think your screen capture is from the WebHelp output's home page, right? If so, I think this is meant only to be a summary of the help structure, not a full TOC. I don't know if its depth can be configured. But once you navigate into one of the actual topics, then you should see a full TOC ...
by chrispitude
Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Do not create the indexTerms.html file when webhelp.show.indexterms.link==no
Replies: 4
Views: 1197

Re: Do not create the indexTerms.html file when webhelp.show.indexterms.link==no

Hi Cosmin,

Thank you! I have confirmed the fix. I will gladly share with my team that we will no longer have these index page matches in our customer search portal results. :)

- Chris
by chrispitude
Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:38 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Debugging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issues
Replies: 18
Views: 4487

Re: Debugging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issues

Excellent, thank you Cosmin! I will update our environment.
by chrispitude
Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Other Issues
Topic: Determine installed version of Oxygen XML
Replies: 2
Views: 479

Re: Determine installed version of Oxygen XML

Hi chrullrich, We have a bash script that dowloads and extracts the platform-independent Oxygen Publishing Engine, then renames the directory according to the Oxygen build number. We use the DITA-OT.README_OXYGEN.txt file for this purpose: # rename by build number, then make a filesystem link BUILD=...
by chrispitude
Sat Mar 25, 2023 5:53 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Dita-OT Transformation Error
Replies: 7
Views: 938

Re: Dita-OT Transformation Error

Hi Radu,

I've had good luck with this approach. While I get plenty of unresolved key errors, I don't get any fatal errors that stop publishing. But maybe our content is written in such a way that I've been lucky!
by chrispitude
Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:44 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Globally Adding a Random ID Attribute?
Replies: 3
Views: 501

Re: Globally Adding a Random ID Attribute?

Hi binar, Try running the Generate IDs refactoring operation ( Tools > XML Refactoring ). For the Element pattern, enter the element name: proceduralStep In the Scope and Filters dialog, set the scope to what you want. For example, to run on all .xml files in a particular directory, you would first ...
by chrispitude
Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:36 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Globally Delete all 6 level Paragraphs
Replies: 3
Views: 491

Re: Globally Delete all 6 level Paragraphs

Hi binar, Try running the Delete Element refactoring operation ( Tools > XML Refactoring ). For the Element pattern, use this: proceduralStep[count(ancestor::proceduralStep) >= 5] In the Scope and Filters dialog, set the scope to what you want. For example, to run on all .xml files in a particular d...
by chrispitude
Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:15 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: In the Oxygen editor, can I add a tooltip to a processing instruction?
Replies: 5
Views: 712

In the Oxygen editor, can I add a tooltip to a processing instruction?

Hello, We use a <?snps-gentext?> processing instruction in our DITA files to indicate cross-book links whose target text is dynamic and should be recomputed as needed: <xref keyref="bookB.topic">Topic Title<?snps-gentext?></xref> We use some CSS to style this processing instruction as an i...
by chrispitude
Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:04 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Globally Adding a Random ID Attribute?
Replies: 3
Views: 501

Re: Globally Adding a Random ID Attribute?

Hi binar,

Oxygen does provide some ID attribute tools, but I'm not sure about your requirements because XML @id attributes cannot begin with a number.
by chrispitude
Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Globally Delete all 6 level Paragraphs
Replies: 3
Views: 491

Re: Globally Delete all 6 level Paragraphs

This should be straightforward. Could you post a minimal example with "before" and "after" XML content?
by chrispitude
Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:32 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Dita-OT Transformation Error
Replies: 7
Views: 938

Re: Dita-OT Transformation Error

Hi Ahmed, Radu's suggestion to identify the problematic content is good advice. You can use a "binary search" approach to do this: In the DITA Maps Manager, delete half of your map (doesn't matter which half). Run the transformation. Its success or failure tells you which half contained th...
by chrispitude
Wed Mar 22, 2023 11:17 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Making @class attributes available to refactoring operations
Replies: 6
Views: 1201

Re: Making @class attributes available to refactoring operations

Hi Radu,

That makes complete sense now. Thanks!
by chrispitude
Wed Mar 22, 2023 1:01 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Allow refactoring descriptor file to specify default file patterns
Replies: 6
Views: 940

Re: Allow refactoring descriptor file to specify default file patterns

Hi Radu, The SVG is generated by Microsoft Visio. It seems to store its SVG global <style> information as follows: image.png Even if the XSLT stylesheet does not modify anything in the SVG file, somehow the refactoring operation "diff checker" reserializes the CDATA and thus sees a differe...
by chrispitude
Wed Mar 22, 2023 12:54 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Making @class attributes available to refactoring operations
Replies: 6
Views: 1201

Re: Making @class attributes available to refactoring operations

In Oxygen XML Editor, do interactively run refactoring operations have a different @class attribute behavior? I noticed when I was playing around with a test .dita and .xsl file in the XSLT Debugger perspective, that @class was populated in the right-side output: image.png Does an interactively run ...
by chrispitude
Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Allow .xpr file to specify minimum required Oxygen version and build number
Replies: 7
Views: 1387

Re: Allow .xpr file to specify minimum required Oxygen version and build number

Cosmin - this is fantastic, thank you!! As soon as I complete my current task, I will try this out.

Maybe this will be the kick in the pants I needed to finally start learning Java...
by chrispitude
Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:09 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Selecting Multiple Profiling Attributes
Replies: 3
Views: 1872

Re: Selecting Multiple Profiling Attributes

Hi Vishwa, We would also like to move our profiling condition definitions from the Oxygen .xpr to subject scheme maps. When profiling conditions are defined in the .xpr file, Condition values can only be updated by editing the .xpr file. For us, this means that writers must contact the Oxygen projec...
by chrispitude
Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Related information and related reference on the Topic TOC of webhelp responsive output
Replies: 6
Views: 1211

Re: Related information and related reference on the Topic TOC of webhelp responsive output

Hi Sitraka, The idea of placing related links on the right side is interesting. One challenge I could see is nested topics. We have topics like this, all in a single topic file: <topic> <title>Useful Features<title> <body>...</body> <related-links> <!-- related links for top-level topic --> <link>.....
by chrispitude
Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Allow .xpr file to specify minimum required Oxygen version and build number
Replies: 7
Views: 1387

Re: Allow .xpr file to specify minimum required Oxygen version and build number

I might need to figure this out sometime soon. We recently had a case where a writer corrupted their map due to this bug, even though I had emailed the group with information about the maintenance release that fixed this bug.
by chrispitude
Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:23 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Making @class attributes available to refactoring operations
Replies: 6
Views: 1201

Re: Making @class attributes available to refactoring operations

Maybe instead of including @class attributes in refactoring operations by default, a refactoring operation's descriptor could "opt in" to ask for them? Then only refactoring operations that want them would get them. I guess then the question would be, should Oxygen automatically strip out ...
by chrispitude
Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Related information and related reference on the Topic TOC of webhelp responsive output
Replies: 6
Views: 1211

Re: Related information and related reference on the Topic TOC of webhelp responsive output

Hi Sitraka,

Are you asking for the related links to replace the right-side TOC, or be included in addition to the right-side TOC?
by chrispitude
Wed Mar 08, 2023 6:50 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Allow refactoring descriptor file to specify default file patterns
Replies: 6
Views: 940

Allow refactoring descriptor file to specify default file patterns

We previously requested the following enhancement: EXM-46522: Allow refactoring descriptor file to specify default file patterns Different refactoring operations might apply to different file types: DITA maps and topics (*.dita,*.ditamap) DITA maps only (*.ditamap) DITA-OT project files (*.xml) XSLT...
by chrispitude
Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:33 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Can a uri-encoded character in a href be escaped?
Replies: 2
Views: 471

Re: Can a uri-encoded character in a href be escaped?

Hi Vic,

I think the workaround you described is actually the correct encoding. "%" must itself be written in escaped form, due to its use in escaped reserved characters. See:

URL encoding - Wikipedia
by chrispitude
Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Does Oxygen XML Have the Feature like WebHelp Document Version Switch
Replies: 6
Views: 1133

Re: Does Oxygen XML Have the Feature like WebHelp Document Version Switch

Hi InspectorSpacetime,

That's a pretty cool solution for the global doc set. Nicely done!

For the per-topic version switching idea, how would you handle situations where a topic was added/deleted/moved/reorganized between versions?
by chrispitude
Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:46 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: Preview for a single page
Replies: 2
Views: 580

Re: Preview for a single page

Hi Kiyoshirue, We have the following enhancement request filed, which sounds similar to what you describe: DCP-464: In DMM, support transformation for selected items The idea is to be able to transform a map from a selected level downward, such as a single chapter in a larger bookmap. This is a tech...